She starred in an unsold comedy pilot, for NBC/Screen Gems, called "The Voice of Groober Hill", where she played an aspiring actress marking time at a small TV station while waiting for her big break. It co-starred Eddie Foy Jr. and Jimmy Hawkins.
While performing for troops in Vietnam, she gave each serviceman a pair
of her trademark elbow-length gloves, telling them that, if they
presented them anywhere where she was performing, their whole evening
would be on her. Over the past 40 years, she has gotten almost
two-thirds of those gloves back from grateful former servicemen.