Career
An aunt was Phyllis McGinley Hayden. She was a long-time resident of New York City. She was noticed as a photo model at age 19 when featured in the December 1949 issue of Glamorous Models magazine.
In 1955 she toured 68 cities to promote Mercury automobiles and attract tourists to the southeastern United States, and in 1958 columnist Earl Wilson dubbed her his "perfect Wilson girl".
That year, under contract to Sid Pink, she joined a Canadian musical cast of Li"l Abner and began appearing on television Her best-known television commercial was an early color one for Radio Corporation of America in the early 1960s.
Hayden appeared in television shows such as 77 Sunset Strip (1958),The Real McCoys (1958),Bonanza (1961) and the presentation of the Emmy Awards (1962) where she carried the "Mission Emmy" torch for host Johnny Carson. She had substantial parts in several motion pictures and authored a number of books, such as Everything You"ve Always Wanted To Know About Energy, But Were Too Weak To Ask and her best-seller, How to Satisfy a Woman Every Time which had sold over a half a million copies by 1992.
Her career also included the radio show Naura"s Good News on WMCA (1982), record albums And then She Wrote (1976) and Equal Time (1979), appearances as a singer at the Round Table and managing Manhattan restaurants Opera Espresso at the Empire Hotel and Our Place.
She starred in the Office Broadway musical Be Kind to People Week in 1975. Her best-known film appearance is a starring role in the 1959 science fiction film The Angry Red Planet, written by Sidney West. Pink and directed by Ib Melchior. Hayden was married (1964) to restaurateur John Harrison, (1969–1973) to television executive Gary Stevens and to attorney Theodore Geiser (1975).
