She played Martha Hale, a Navy nurse and girlfriend of Jackie Cooper’s doctor character, and received an Emmy nomination in 1961. She also kept busy with guest-starring turns on such shows as Have Gun - Will Travel, Rawhide, Maverick, The Rifleman and Mike Hammer before landing on the CBS comedy Hennesey. The first time I ever walked on to a soundstage was to play the lead in one of his films.” “I was never really fond of any of, quite honestly,” she told the Los Angeles Times in 1988. She made her onscreen debut for Corman in Rock All Night (1957), followed by Teenage Doll (1957), Carnival Rock (1957), The Saga of the Viking Women - as Desir, the leader of a group of women who take to the high seas in search of their missing men - and Stakeout on Dope Street (1958).

15, 1932, Dalton worked as a model and a dancer at the Sands Hotel in her hometown and at the Moulin Rouge in Hollywood.

Oppressed by her domineering mom, Julia winds up psychologically disturbed, shoots two people, escapes from a psychiatric hospital run by nuns, presumably dies in a cabin fire and then goes to live in a convent early in the sixth season, never to be seen on the series again.īorn Marlene Wasden in Las Vegas on Aug. She also played the wife of Hal Linden’s character in the pilot for the ABC comedy Barney Miller but was replaced by Barbara Barrie when the show was picked up as a midseason replacement in January 1975.įrom 1981-86, Dalton starred as the older daughter of Jane Wyman’s Angela Channing and mother of Lorenzo Lamas’ lazy playboy Lance Cumson on the CBS primetime soap opera Falcon Crest, created by Earl Hamner Jr. She worked for two seasons (1967-69) on the CBS sketch comedy program The Jonathan Winters Show and portrayed Calamity Jane opposite Don Murray and Guy Stockwell in The Plainsman (1966), a remake of the classic Gary Cooper-Jean Arthur 1936 Western.

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