Background
Rhue was born in Washington, District of Columbia
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Education
Rhue graduated from Los Angeles High School and studied drama at Los Angeles City College.
Career
She also was a guest star in dozens of television series, including a 1967 appearance as Khan Noonien Singh"s love interest (Lieutenant Marla McGivers) in the Star Trek episode "Space Seed". In 1960, Rhue had played the spouse of another Ricardo Montalbán character in an episode of National Broadcasting Company"s Bonanza. That year, she also played the title role of Marian Ames in the Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Wayward Wife".
Other guest appearances included Cheyenne (1955).
Have Gun – Will Travel, Gunsmoke, Riverboat, The Rebel, "Laramie", and Rawhide (1959). Pony Express, Sugarfoot, Checkmate, The Alaskans, Bourbon Street Beat, and The Roaring 20s (1960).
Route 66 (1962). The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963).
The Manitoba from United Network Command for Law and Enforcement (1964, 1967), Daniel Boone (1965). The Fugitive (1964, 1966).
Ironside (1967). The Wild Wild West (1967).
Star Trek (1967); Mannix (1968). Bracken"s World (1969-1970).
Hawaii Five-O (1970, 1973). Mission: Impossible (1972).
Banacek (1972); Starsky & Hutch (1975).
Fantasy Island (1978). And Charlie"s Angels (1979). She also appeared in the television movie Goldie and the Boxer (1979), and made appearances on the quiz show, The Match Game (1974-1976).
In 1977, Rhue was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
She continued to work, including a role in Days of Our Lives. But, by 1985, she needed a wheelchair and was limited to parts that did not require her to walk or stand, such as a recurring roles in Murder She Wrote and Houston Knights, with Michael Beck and Michael Paré.
She died from pneumonia at the age of sixty-eight at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills in Los Angeles, California.
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From the 1950s to the 1990s, Rhue appeared in some twenty films, including Operation Petticoat (1959), The Ladies Manitoba (1961), A Majority of One (1961), Escape from Zahrain (1962), Stanley Kramer"s lieutenant"s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), He Rides Tall (1964), Kenner (1969), and Stand Up and Be Counted (1972).
