Emerging from a Midwestern background, she was born Mary Dorothy Maloney in Chicago and raised in Dallas, where modeling work and studies at Ursuline Academy, Highland Park High, Hockaday Junior College and Southern Methodist University led to a chance encounter with a talent scout that secured her a studio contract. After debuting in 1943 with modest parts at RKO, she gained notice as the bespect… Read more
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
Known for Basic Instinct 1992 The Big Sleep 1946 Written on the Wind 1956 Warlock 1959 Series ★ 7.1 The Streets of San Francisco 1972
★ 6.8 Warlock 1959
Lily Dollar Series ★ 7.9 Rich Man, Poor Man 1976
Irene Goodwin Series ★ 7.5 Ellery Queen 1975
★ 7 Colorado Territory 1949
Julie Ann Winslow ★ 6.8 The Tarnished Angels 1957
LaVerne Shumann ★ 6.8 The Last Sunset 1961
Belle Breckenridge ★ 7.3 Hollywood Canteen 1944
Junior Hostess (uncredited) ★ 6.6 Artists and Models 1955
Abigail Parker Series ★ 7.1 The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries 1977
★ 6.8 Man of a Thousand Faces 1957
Cleva Creighton Chaney ★ 6.6 Pushover 1954
Ann Stewart Series ★ 7 Vega$ 1978
★ 6.5 Scared Stiff 1953
Rosie Series ★ 6.7 Route 66 1960
★ 6.5 Fate Is the Hunter 1964
Lisa Bond (uncredited) Series ★ 6.5 Police Woman 1974
★ 6.3 Private Hell 36 1954
Francey Farnham Series ★ 6.3 Matt Houston 1982
★ 6.2 The Killer That Stalked New York 1950
Alice Lorie ★ 6.2 Convicted 1950
Kay Knowland ★ 6.2 The Last Voyage 1960
Laurie Henderson ★ 6.1 Young at Heart 1954
Fran Tuttle ★ 5.9 The Nevadan 1950
Karen Galt ★ 5.8 South of St. Louis 1949
Deborah Miller ★ 6 Night and Day 1946
Nancy ★ 6 Beach Party 1963
Marianne ★ 5.7 Flaxy Martin 1949
Nora Carson ★ 5.8 Battle Cry 1955
Mrs Elaine Yarborough ★ 5.3 Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff 1979
Mildred ★ 5.7 Winter Kills 1979
Emma Kegan ★ 5.3 The Fast and the Furious 1954
Connie Adair ★ 4.5 Five Guns West 1955
Shalee ★ 4.3 Rest in Pieces 1987
Aunt Catherine ★ 4.9 The Being 1983
Marge Smith ★ 3.7 The Day Time Ended 1980
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