She suggested a dancer in her nightclub act named Ronnie Walken change his first name to Christopher. He did. The rest is movie history.
Was sentenced in September 1983 by a U.S. District Judge to 500 hours of community service and get psychiatric help for lying before a federal grand jury about having pocketed her dead mother's Social Security payments.
Daughter of Belgian parents, George Bronz (or Bronze) and Louise van Vooren, she later adopted her mother's maiden name as her professional name.
Became a naturalized United States citizen on January 4, 1951.
Was one of the judges in the 1969 Miss Universe pageant.
Was a champion skater and claimed to be fluent in English, Italian, French, German, Spanish, and Dutch.
Came to New York in 1950 as an exchange student.
She had her only child, a son with her second husband Curt Henry Pfenniger named Eric Purcell.