- She was slightly injured by Vincent Price while filming her last scene from The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) when he quite aggressively grabbed her by her throat - she shrugged it off because the scene came off so real.
- The role of Alice LeBlanc in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) was written by James Poe - her husband - specifically for her, but the studio would not accept her and eventually fired Poe, too. Sydney Pollack eventually directed the film and the role was given to Susannah York instead.
- Has appeared in The Crimson Cult (1968) with three other cinema horror masters: Boris Karloff, Michael Gough and Sir Christopher Lee.
- She has one child, a son named Jonathan Jackson Poe who was born on August 11, 1970 in Los Angeles with her ex-husband, James Poe.
- She was the original female lead to Elvis Presley in Flaming Star (1960). She walked off the picture after an argument with director Don Siegel.
- Best remembered by the public for her role as the evil yet sexy witch Princess Asa Vajda in Mario Bava's horror classic Black Sunday (1960).
- She was reportedly the last person to be signed as a contract player by the J. Arthur Rank Organization.
- She was friends with Jane Wald, when she was in the United States during the 1960s.
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