Career
Although she worked extensively as a television actress in the 1950s, she is best-remembered as an actress for her role as Lily Carver (Kiss Maine Deadly, 1955). Her only other theatrical film role was in a gritty 1953 New York indie, The Big Break. She appeared on the cover of the January 1957 issue of Cosmopolitan, representing "The New Face of Broadway".
Rodgers is frequently cited as co-author of the song "Jackson" with Billy Edd Wheeler, but this is untrue.
Leiber wrote the song with Wheeler, using his then-wife"s name as a pseudonym.
