Trivia

She vanished from public view to raise a family in Arizona, but over the last 20 years had parlayed her claimed associations with Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and the Kennedys into recurrent appearances on television exposés.

While on tour with fellow trick-shot golfer Jack Redmond, she would perform stunts such as hitting a ball out of a man's mouth.

She picked cotton until she left home at age 13 after a disagreement with her parents (she disliked her stepfather) to pursue her career.

Interred at Pacific View Memorial Park in Corona del Mar, CA. The inscription on her gravestone reads: "She came, she saw, she conquered".

Survived by three children--Brandon James, Melinda Belli and Kellee Jade Campo--and three grandchildren.

In the 1950s the Tropical Fruit Co. named her "Miss Orange Whip", as publicity for their recently debuted Orange Whip fountain drink.

Worked as a calendar pinup & "cheesecake" model alongside Bettie Page in the magazines Wink, Titter & Beauty Parade.

Many of her numerous claims regarding Marilyn Monroe have been sources of controversy and disputation.

First husband, an Italian singer named Sandy Scott, introduced her to Bert Lahr and she won a role as a dancer in his off-Broadway show "Burlesque".

Got her start on Broadway in 1948 via the chorus line of Bert Lahr's "Burlesque". Soon was in demand as a model and wound up as Dagmar's replacement on television's Broadway Open House (1950). Also appeared on Bob Hope's early show originating from New York and The George Gobel Show (1954).