- Abandoned her career in her mid 20s. Later worked for a firm that sold medical supplies.
- Husband Charles Breitenbucher was almost twenty years her senior. They had one child, a son.
- Best remembered in film as the nubile daughter of Gregory Peck and Polly Bergen who is terrorized by murderous stalker Robert Mitchum in the classic film Cape Fear (1962).
- TV Guide cover 4/8-14/61.
- Younger sister of Hollywood stunt woman Jean Coulter.
- Attended Luther Burbank Junior High School in Burbank, California. She took daily riding classes after school. This was a primary reason she landed the role in "National Velvet.".
- She had long flowing naturally blonde hair to her waist. The studio dyed her hair black and shortened it for the role of "National Velvet.".
- Her ashes were scattered at sea along with those of her husband Charles off the South Coast of Maui near Mamalu Bay, Hawaii.
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