She was a regular as Hannah, the secretary to series character Stuart Bailey (Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.), on the sixth and final season of the ABC/Warner Bros. crime drama, "77 Sunset Strip". One of her favorite roles was a small part in "A New Kind of Love" (1963), starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, in which Staley had a sequence with Newman. She also appeared in "Cape Fear" (1962) as a waitress in a scene with Robert Mitchum; "Johnny Cool" (1963); and the 1964 Elvis Presley movie, "Roustabout"; and co-starred in "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" (1966) opposite Don Knotts and in "Gunpoint" (1966) opposite Audie Murphy.