Actress. She is best remembered for her recurring portrayal of the delightful Liz Cooper on the television show "My Favorite Husband." Born Smylla Brind, she was raised in a family of wealth and position, the only daughter of the prominent language instructor Nah Brind and esteemed psychologist Anna Brind. During the rise of the Nazi regime, she and her family emigrated from Austria to the United States settling in New York City, New York. After attending the Professional Children's School, she was proclaimed as being "The Child Prodigy of 1940" following her diagnosis of having an IQ of 165 and began specializing in language and literature within the theatre circuit. After being discovered by the famed playwright Lillian Hellman, she was impressed by her presence, dark good looks, youthful charm, maturity, and articulate voice, she was chosen as being Babette Muller in the original production of "Watch on the Rhine" both on Broadway and in the national touring production. In 1944, she caught the attention of film director Mark Robson, who arranged for her to begin a career in the motion picture industry starting with her being under his direction in the film "Youth Runs Wild" that same year. For the next 50 years, she would go on to flourish as a character actress. Often typecast as a debutante, playgirl, educator, businesswoman, wife, mother, best friend, housekeeper, society matron, old maid, and, in her later years, matriarch, she appeared in lead roles in such motion pictures as "The Girl of the Limberlost" (1945), "Margie" (1946), "I've Always Loved You" (1946), "The Late George Apley" (1947), "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" (1947), "Mother Wore Tights" (1947), "The Foxes of Harrow" (1947), "Big Jake" (1949), "The Secret of St. Ives" (1949), "Tarzan and the Slave Girl" (1950), "Three Husbands" (1950), "The Basketball Fix" (1951), "The Fighter" (1952), "The Bad and the Beautiful" (1952), "Rosie!" (1967), "Bless the Beasts and Children" (1971), and "The Witch Who Came From the Sea" (1976). With the advent of television, she became a household name appearing in various guest spots on such syndicated sitcoms as "Hollywood Theatre Time," "Pulitzer Prize Playhouse," "Lux Video Theatre," "Lights Out," "Robert Montgomery Presents," "The Revlon Mirror Theatre," "The Philco Television Playhouse," "Justice," "Stage 7," "The Millionaire," "Matinee Theatre," "The Loretta Young Show," "Schlitz Playhouse," "Climax!," "The Red Skelton Hour," "Wagon Train," "Goodyear Theatre," "The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen," "Perry Mason," "One Step Beyond," "General Electric Theatre," "The Chevy Mystery Show," "Arnie," "Police Story," "All That Glitters," "Call to Glory," "The Twilight Zone," "Dallas," "Murder, She Wrote," "The Wonder Years," and "True Colors". In addition, she was the first actress to originate the role of The Girl in George Axelrod's original Broadway production of "The Seven Year Itch" (1952) and she was a regular performer on such radio programs as "Lux Radio Theatre," "Suspense," "Hollywood Star Time," "Philip Morris Playhouse," "Theatre Guild on the Air," and "Leave It to the Girls." During her career, she was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, supported the Motion Picture and Television Fund, was a member of the National Board of Review, hosted her own interview program for The Voice of America, was a communications professor for the UCLA, presided as chairwoman for the California State Democratic Committee, was an accomplished oil painter, was an active parishioner of the Temple Israel of Hollywood, and she was married to plastic surgeon Robert Franklyn and to television director Mark Sandrich Jr. (both marriages ended in divorce and she mothered two children from her second union). Following her 1991 retirement, she spent the final years of her life devoted to her family, as well as being active in religious and charitable causes, until her death from complications coinciding with cancer.