She was only 18 years old and working as a photographer's assistant in
Stockholm when two Italians showed up. Producer
Carlo Ponti and director
Mario Soldati were there to see pictures
of beautiful models, searching for a blonde girl for a movie. They
picked her instead and soon she found herself in Rome. She quickly made
a number of movies, almost all of them forgotten, where all she had to
do was look beautiful. She was offered a contract with 20th Century Fox
and came to Hollywood, where her part in
Der blaue Engel (1959) got pretty
good reviews.
But she got tired of always playing the femme fatale and after marrying
Sammy Davis Jr. she left the
movies to take care of her children instead.
