Actress. She is best remembered for her recurring portrayal of straitlaced Flossie Brimme on the television show "The Waltons". After attaining her degree in theatrical arts from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, she began her career as a leading lady on the Broadway stage. While attending a luncheon at the Beverly Hills Hotel, she was introduced to director Ralph Murphy. Impressed by her distinctive voice, reddish good looks, and mature appearance, 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 on an episode of "Your Jeweler's Showcase". From there, she would go on to enjoy a fruitful career as a recognizable character actress appearing in over 130 features; often typecast as wives, mothers, old maids, relatives, secretaries, nurses, retail clerks, businesswomen, dowagers, busybodies, gossips, landladies, neighbors, eccentrics, curmudgeons, educators, clergywomen, housekeepers, authority fugues, immigrants, aristocrats, and matriarchs. She appeared in such feature films as "I'll Cry Tomorrow" (1955), "Designing Woman" (1957), "An Affair to Remember" (1957), "Handle with Care" (1958), "North by Northwest" (1959), "Kitten with a Whip" (1964), "Strange Bedfellows" (1965), "Texas Across the River" (1966), "The Hostage" (1967), "The Thomas Crowne Affair" (1968), "Soylent Green" (1973), and "Mr. Ricco" (1975). On television, she appeared in numerous guest spots on such syndicated sitcoms as "Studio 57," "Public Defender," "Front Row Center," "The Bob Cummings Show," "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theater," "The Adventures of McGraw," "Playhouse 90," "Suspicion," "Code 3," "Schlitz Playhouse," "Father Knows Best," "The People's Choice," "State Trooper," "Tales of Wells Fargo," "Hotel de Paree," "One Step Beyond," "Overland Trail," "The Magical World of Disney," "M Squad," "Law of the Plainsman," "Coronado 9," "The Asphalt Jungle," "The Barbara Stanwyck Show," "Hawaiian Eye," "Frontier Circus," "National Velvet," "Going My Way," "Dr. Kildare," "The Twilight Zone," "Wagon Train," "My Living Doll," "Perry Mason," "My Three Sons," "The Donna Reed Show," "It's About Tim," "The Second Hundred Years," "Lassie," "The Fugitive," "Bewitched," "Petticoat Junction," "The Governor & JJ," "Gunsmoke," "Cade's Country," "Marcus Welby, M.D.," "Nichols," "Bridget Loves Bernie," "Emergency!," "Lucas Tanner," "Cannon," "Ironside," "Medical Center," "Charlie's Angels," "Starsky and Hutch," and "The Rockford Files". 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 Presbyterian church, had been one of the founding members of the Canyon Theater Guild, presided as a chairwoman for her local charters of the American Red Cross and the Boys & Girls Clubs, had been a theatrical instructor for the Pasadena Playhouse, and she was married to character actor James McCallion from 1943 until her death (their union produced two children).