Curiosidades

She was slightly injured by Vincent Price while filming her last scene from O Poço e o Pêndulo (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 A Noite dos Desesperados (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.

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.

Has appeared in A Maldição do Altar Escarlate (1968) with three other cinema horror masters: Boris Karloff, Michael Gough and Sir Christopher Lee.

She was the original female lead to Elvis Presley in Estrela de Fogo (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 A Maldição do Demônio (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.