Actress. She is best remembered for her portrayal of the delightful Cathy Williams in "Mickey" (1948). Born into a prominent theatrical family, the daughter of character actors Joan Davis and Si Wills, while attending the Westlake School for Girls, she was given an arranged interview via her parents studio connections and was introduced to director Will Jason. Impressed by her dark good looks, petite appearance, and wisdom beyond her years, 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 "Anesthesia" (1938). From there, she would go on to enjoy a successful career as a notable character actress appearing in over 20 features; often typecast as wives, mothers, relatives, faithful friends, love interests, white-collared workers, playgirls, flirts, nurses, secretaries, retail clerks, beauticians, manicurists, neighbors, educators, torch singers, southern belles, debutantes, waitresses, reporters, and glamour dolls. She appeared in such feature films as "George White's Scandals" (1945), "Raw Deal" (1948), "Skirts Ahoy!" (1952), "Small Town Girl" (1953), "The Student Prince" (1954), "Some Like It Hot" (1959), "The Ladies Man" (1961), and "Son of Flubber" (1963). On television, she appeared in numerous guest spots on such syndicated sitcoms as "The Life of Riley," "I Married Joan," "The Millionaire," "The People's Choice," "Matinee Theatre," "Date with the Angels," "Tales of Wells Fargo," "Buckskin," "The Tall Man," "Petticoat Junction," and "Vacation Playhouse". 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 actor James Dean, presided on her local charters of the American Red Cross and the March of Dimes, had been accoladed as a 1959 Deb Star, was cited by gossip columnist Louella Parsons as "having such desire and variety", and she was married to fireman Lee Bamber from 1952 to 1953, lieutenant Alan Grossman from 1954 to 1958, and executive Martin Colbert from 1960 until her death (her first two unions ended in divorce and she produced two sons from her second marriage). While appearing in what would be her final appearance in an episode of "Mister Ed", Wills, a lifelong smoker, died from complications of a house fire which had been caused due to her smoking in bed.