An American model and actress, born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA, as Edythe Elaine Tooker. She married twice and had one child. Among her most important works are The Great Man (1956), The Tunnel of Love (1958), Peter Gunn (1958), and Hootenanny Hoot (1963). Her mother was a librarian and her father was an insurance salesman, and they separated when she was 6 months old. She started modeling at the age of 11 and achieved great success before getting her first movie role. Vikki Dougan won several beauty pageants, including the Miss Coney Island pageant, and throughout the 1950s and 1960s, she dated many Hollywood stars, including Frank Sinatra and Glenn Ford.