Emerging from a modest Iowa upbringing, she began modeling for JCPenney at eleven after her family relocated to Los Angeles, and made her television debut in 1959 on shows such as Dennis the Menace and The Loretta Young Show. At fourteen, she was chosen from hundreds of candidates to portray Dolores “Lolita” Haze in Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 adaptation, a performance that earned a Golden Globe for Mo…
