- Was a photo model at age 11.
- In December of 2005 she and her husband Andy Friendly were among the passengers on a Los Angeles-to-Honolulu flight in which a 37-year-old Mexican passenger began acting erratically and threatening other passengers. He had to be restrained with plastic handcuffs. Andy was one of the passengers who helped restrain him.
- Performed summer stock in New England during her teen years. Her older sister Ann Crowley was also an actress and musical performer.
- Daughter of Helen and Vincent Crowley, a mine foreman.
- Met her future husband, Ed Hookstratten, who was appearing on the Los Angeles stage in "Kiss Me, Kate", while she was filming Hollywood or Bust (1956).
- Her father, Vincent Crowley, died at age 58 of a heart attack in New York on January 22, 1961.
- In a career that spanned more than 50 years, her first husband, Ed Hookstratten, was a powerful and iconic force in show business, with clients including Elvis Presley, Dan Rowan & Dick Martin, Joey Bishop and Johnny Carson (he replaced Henry Bushkin at Carson Productions); major news personalities like Bryant Gumbel, Tom Brokaw, Tom Snyder and Jessica Savitch; and Vin Scully, Dick Enberg, Phyllis George, Merlin Olsen, Harry Kalas, Dick Stockton, Pat Haden, Marcus Allen and Don Meredith from the world of sports.
- 1953 Deb Star.
- Younger sister of singer/actress Ann Crowley.
- Mother, with Ed Hookstratten, of son Jon Hookstratten (born on May 5, 1958) and daughter Ann Hookstratten Osher (born on December 21, 1960).
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