Actress. She is best remembered for her portrayal of the wholesome Eileen in "Pillow Talk" (1959). Born into a prominent theatrical family, the only child of showgirl Valerie Raemier and talent booker Edgar Allen, she began her career as a leading lady on the Broadway stage. While performing in the chorus at the prestigious Palace Theatre during a tour in Las Vegas, Nevada, she was discovered by a talent scout who brought her out to California for a series of screen and wardrobe tests. Upon being discovered by director Sidney Sheldon, he was so impressed by her dark good looks, hourglass figure, and soothing voice, he took notice of her potential and arranged for her to begin a career in the film industry beginning with her appearing under his supervision per a supporting role in "The Birds and the Bees" (1956). From there, she would go on to flourish as a notable character actress appearing in over 40 features; often typecast as wives, mothers, relatives, chorines, gold-diggers, glamour dolls, southern belles, playgirls, socialites, love interests, exotics, femme fatales, women with a past, busybodies, snobs, landladies, neighbors, eccentrics, curmudgeons, waitresses, retail clerks, nurses, secretaries, beauticians, manicurists, housekeepers, and authority figures. She appeared in such feature films as "That Certain Feeling" (1956), "The Joker Is Wild" (1957), "Omar Khayyam" (1957), "Hot Spell" (1958), "I Married a Monster from Outer Space" (1958), "The Five Pennies" (1959), "Bells Are Ringing" (1960), "Shotgun Wedding" (1963), "The Devil's Bedroom" (1964), "Come Spy with Me" (1967), and "What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?" (1969). On television, she appeared in numerous guest spots on such syndicated sitcoms as "The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show," "Studio One," "The Texan," "The Magical World of Disney," "Steve Canyon," "The Bob Cummings Show," "Riverboat," "Leave It to Beaver," "Philip Marlowe," "Checkmate," "Sea Hunt," "Michael Shayne," "Pony Express," "The Aquanauts," "Assignment: Underwater," "Don't Call Me Charlie," "Gunsmoke," "Bonanza," "The Trials of O'Brien," and "Mod Squad". During her career, she was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, was supportive of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, had been a member of the Hollywood Democratic Committee, was a regular parishioner of the Catholic church, had been romantically linked to actors Earl Holliman and Jack Haley, Jr., had been a model for glamour photographer Paul Hesse, presided on her local charters of the American Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity, was the official stand-in for actress Ava Gardner, was accoladed as a 1958 Deb Star, was crowned "Miss Bowling", had been cited per gossip columnist Louella Parsons as being "one of Hollywood's most dark and infatuating newcomers", was a popular cheesecake model among the U.S. Navy Seals during the Cold War, and she was married to actor Troy Donahue from 1966 to 1968 (their union produced no children). Upon her withdrawal from acting in 1969, she went on to enjoy a successful newfound career as a business executive for RCA where she would go on to write several soap operas and prompts until her official retirement in the early 1990s.