More a sex goddess than an actress, she was one of the most popular celebrities of the 1960s and 1970s. While she appeared in dozens of films, they earned little notice, her success depending almost exclusively on her stature as a buxom pin-up. She got her first lead role in the pop musical A Swingin' Summer in 1965, resulting in a contract with 20th Century Fox, which cast her in the sci-fi hit Fantastic Voyage before loaning her to the British horror studio Hammer. There she starred in a 1967 remake of One Million Years B.C., clad in little more than strategically placed strips of fur. After appearing as Lust incarnate in Stanley Donen's seven-deadly-sins comedy Bedazzled, she finally returned to the USA and in 1970 finally.got her first real starring role in the disastrous Myra Breckenridge. Her situation was unusual - she was certainly a star and a household name, yet few people ever went to see her movies. While both 1973's The Three Musketeers and its sequel The Four Musketeers were well received, she earned little credit for their success, and when the 1976 black comedy Mother, Jugs and Speed failed, Hollywood largely washed their hands of her. After an absence of over a decade, in 1994 she returned to cinema in the comedy The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult.