Career
She also played the character Betty Andrews on the daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless. Saunders first started in acting at age 13, studying under Elia Kazan and later joining his Lincoln Center Company. They have one son, actor, David Pressman.
Her father died August, 2006 at 92 years old.
Saunders was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1982 and she left Days of our Lives three years later when she became too ill to continue in the role. She died on March 10, 2007 from undisclosed complications from Mississippi.