- Became the subject of death threats while dating Joe DiMaggio in 1964. The FBI determined the threats came from a patient at the Agnew Mental Hospital in San Francisco who could not bear to see DiMaggio with anyone other than Marilyn Monroe, who died in 1962.
- Was a runner up in the 1952 Miss Maine beauty pagaent.
- At her parents' insistence, she moved to Hollywood in 1956 accompanied by two family friends.
- She was named after Myrna Loy.
- Was a cheerleader in high school.
- Graduated from Pemetic High School in Southwest Harbor, ME, aged 17.
- Best remembered for her role as "Madeline Usher" in Roger Corman's House of Usher (1960).
- Her father was a boat builder in her home state, Maine.
- Acted at the Pasadena Playhouse for one year.
- Studied acting, under Sanford Meisner, at the Neighbourhood Playhouse.
- Interred at her family's lot in Mt Pleasant Cemetery, Bangor, ME.
- 1958 Deb Star.
- She was a lifelong Republican.
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