including Robert Montgomery Presents and The Philco Television Playhouse, and she appeared on Pantomime Quiz and Leave It to the Girls. She later appeared on the television series The Wonder Years and Murder, She Wrote. She played the title role on the television series Wagon Train S1E28 “The Sally Potter Story”, airing April 9, 1958, where her love interest was a young Martin Milner. She had a guest appearance on Perry Mason as Donna Kress in the episode "The Case of Paul Drake's Dilemma" (1959). Stage Back on Broadway, she originated the role of "The Girl" in The Seven Year Itch, the character portrayed by Marilyn Monroe in the 1955 film version. She continued to do much television through the 1950s, and was one of the narrators of the United World Federalists documentary Eight Steps to Peace (1957), along with Vincent Price and Robert Ryan. Brown ventured into writing for the stage. She was the author of Europa and the Bull, based on the legend of Europa. Politics Brown was active in the Democratic Party, serving as a delegate to the party's national convention in 1956. In 1962, she was a member of a committee that promoted a write-in campaign for Adlai Stevenson as governor of California. Painting In 1959, Brown was described in a newspaper article as "a promising artist whose oil paintings hang in the homes of top film colony personalities." She signed her paintings with her birth name, Smylla. A gallery in Beverly Hills, California held a one-woman show of her work in 1958. Personal life Brown was married to Dr. Robert Alan Franklyn, a plastic surgeon, from 1950 to 1957. In 1959, she married television director Mark Sandrich, Jr. – son of director Mark Sandrich – and they had two children, David Michael and Cathy Lisa. Upon her death, she was cremated and her ashes returned to her son, David. Brown has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a motion pictures star at 1621 Vine Street and a television star at 6528 Hollywood Boulevard. Filmography Radio appearances References External links 1928 births 1999 deaths American film actresses American people of Austrian-Jewish descent American stage actresses American television actresses Austrian emigrants to the United States Deaths from cancer in California Deaths from breast cancer Jewish American actresses Actresses from Vienna Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States 20th-century American actresses California Democrats 20th-century