Career
Latham comes from Hamilton, Texas. She is from a family of ranchers, "mostly around San Saba and Mason counties in Texas." Latham"s Broadway credits include the 1956 revival of Major Barbara, Invitation to a March (1960), and Isle of Children (1962). Her other stage performances included work "under the personal direction of Margo Jones" in Theater "54 in Dallas, Texas.
In 1958, she was in a touring company that performed Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.