Background
McLeod was born in Santa Monica, California.
McLeod was born in Santa Monica, California.
She acted in a Los Angeles little theater and studied in the Bliss-Hayden drama workshop.
She memorably portrayed the one woman whom James Garner"s character Bret Maverick wanted to marry on the 1957 American Broadcasting Company/Warner Brothers television series Maverick, in the episode "Rage for Vengeance."
Her schooling came in an Alhambra convent. She worked in a movie theater in Reno and later became a chorus girl in musicals.