She starred in more than 100 titles on TV and film throughout six decades, and was immortalized by her role in the comedy An Affair to Remember.
She started as a secretary and a hotel singer before landing her first Broadway role in 1947.
On television, as well on stage, she tended to play prim, and sometimes icy characters. She played an alien-collaborator mother on the sci-fi mini-series V.
Her third husband, James Lee, wrote for the influential TV miniseries Roots.
Her favorite part in playing the fiancee of Cary Grant on An Affair to Remember was kissing the handsome star her first day on set.
