In 1971, she played a lascivious substitute high school teacher in the dark comedy "Pretty Maids All in a Row," which also starred Rock Hudson and Telly Savalas, for director Roger Vadim and writer-producer Gene Roddenberry. In the film, her character seduces a sexually inexperienced student, portrayed by John David Carson, against the backdrop of a series of murders of female students at the same high school. "Pretty Maids All In A Row" drew hostile critical reviews, and was a box-office failure.