The wife and long-term collaborator of Saul Bass, she worked with him after their marriage in 1960 on many of his most famous title sequences. Beginning in the 1980s, they often shared credit for title sequence and film projects.
She was born Elaine Makatura and became Saul Bass's assistant in 1955. After their marriage in 1960, they had two children, Jennifer and Jeffrey, born in 1964 and 1967, respectively.