She was known more as a performer with ties to celebrities, usually actors, rather than as an actor herself. Nevertheless, she did play the lead role in John Waters' film "Desperate Living" and appeared on an episode of "Adam-12" as a burlesque dancer who calls the police about a peeping tom outside her home (season five, November 1972, episode "Harry Nobody"). Her daughter Brenda and she toured with an on-stage striptease act. The act ended when her daughter Brenda committed suicide on her 39th birthday in 1982.