 In April 1947, she was crowned "Miss Damsite" and participated at the ground-breaking ceremony for the McNary Dam, on the Columbia River, alongside Cornelia Morton McNary, Senator Charles McNary's widow, and Oregon Governor Earl Snell.Stardom came in 1954 with her role as Babe in the Broadway musical "The Pajama Game".She was on the December 1954 cover of "Esquire", where she was featured in a seductive pose taken by American photographer Maxwell Frederic Coplan.