- She was one of the few "teenagers" in the AIP "Beach Party" movies who actually was a teenager, having been 17 when she made her first one. Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello were in their mid-20s, and Jody McCrea was 31.
- Gained fame in the 1960s as the one and only "Dr Pepper Girl".
- After retiring from show business in 1969, she married and devoted herself to raising a family.
- In 1995 she moved to Hawaii with her husband and started a successful fashion-design/retail business, putting out her own line of clothing under the ADASA label.
- She released two singles in the early 1980s including a country version of Dusty Springfield's "Wishin' and Hopin'".
- Mother, with Lenny Waronker, of son Joey Waronker, and daughters Anna Waronker and Katherine Waronker.
- Mother-in-law of Steve McDonald.
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