- Lived at NYC's Chelsea Hotel, she is one of the luminaries honored with a plaque there.
- Professor of film at the University of California in Los Angeles, 1975-83.
- She has directed two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Cool World (1963) and Portrait of Jason (1967).
- Daughter of wealthy manufacturer Samuel L. Brimberg. She was educated at Lincoln School, Manhattan, and studied modern dance under Martha Graham. At age seventeen, she got her first job as a choreographer. Later performed her own works at the Dance Theatre, and at Carnegie Hall, in New York. Was a board member of the National Dance Association. Gave up her dancing career for independent film making in 1953.
- Has one daughter, Wendy.
- Older sister of Elaine Dundy, who was married to Kenneth Tynan.
- Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 219-224. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
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