- She vanished from public view to raise a family in Arizona, but over the last 20 years had parlayed her claimed associations with Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and the Kennedys into recurrent appearances on television exposés.
- While on tour with fellow trick-shot golfer Jack Redmond, she would perform stunts such as hitting a ball out of a man's mouth.
- She picked cotton until she left home at age 13 after a disagreement with her parents (she disliked her stepfather) to pursue her career.
- First husband, an Italian singer named Sandy Scott, introduced her to Bert Lahr and she won a role as a dancer in his off-Broadway show "Burlesque".
- Interred at Pacific View Memorial Park in Corona del Mar, CA. The inscription on her gravestone reads: "She came, she saw, she conquered".
- Survived by three children--Brandon James, Melinda Belli and Kellee Jade Campo--and three grandchildren.
- In the 1950s the Tropical Fruit Co. named her "Miss Orange Whip", as publicity for their recently debuted Orange Whip fountain drink.
- Worked as a calendar pinup & "cheesecake" model alongside Bettie Page in the magazines Wink, Titter & Beauty Parade.
- Many of her numerous claims regarding Marilyn Monroe have been sources of controversy and disputation.
- Got her start on Broadway in 1948 via the chorus line of Bert Lahr's "Burlesque". Soon was in demand as a model and wound up as Dagmar's replacement on television's Broadway Open House (1950). Also appeared on Bob Hope's early show originating from New York and The George Gobel Show (1954).
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