She was lured to Hollywood by the offer to co-star with Paul Newman in "The Hustler", released in 1961. She played Newman's girlfriend, Sarah Packard, and for her performance she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Substantial movie roles did not come her way after "The Hustler", so she and her husband moved to New York. In 1964, she appeared in two medical dramas — as Alicia Carter in "The Eleventh Hour" episode "My Door Is Locked and Bolted", and as Alice Marin in the "Breaking Point" episode "The Summer House". In 1965, she starred in a Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie", opposite Maureen Stapleton, Pat Hingle, and George Grizzard.