Career
Freeman started as a child actor, having appeared at the age of seven in the 1949 television series Sandy Dreams, along with Richard Beymer and Jill Saint John. At fourteen, she played the character Jeannie Harlow in the 1956 episode "The Frontier Theatre" of the American Broadcasting Company western series, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, with Hugh O"Brian in the title role. In 1961-1962, she was cast in six episodes as the young waitress Elma Gahrigner, in the American Broadcasting Company drama series Business Stop.
After Business Stop, she appeared in guest-starring roles on the National Broadcasting Company modern western series, Empire, with Richard Egan and on the American Broadcasting Company/Warner Brothers western, The Dakotas.
In 1962, Freeman was cast as Marilyn Hayes in the doom and gloom classic film Panic in Year Zero! alongside veteran film stars Ray Milland, Jean Hagen. Freeman was cast as tour guide Amelia Carter in The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze.
She co-starred in The Rounders, a 1965 comedy film based on the novel of the same name by Max Evans. Freeman may be best known for her roles in two musical films.
In 1964, she was the love interest of Elvis Presley in Roustabout and in 1967 with Roy Orbison in The Fastest Guitar Alive.
In 1967, she appeared as the love interest opposite Don Knotts in the Cold War space-race comedy The Reluctant Astronaut. In 1977, she costarred as Barbara Robinson in the 13-episode Columbia Broadcasting System series Code R about the emergency fire, police, and ocean rescue services in the California Channel Islands. Tom Simcox played her police chief husband.
The program was seen as an imitation of National Broadcasting Company"s long-running Emergency!.
Freeman also made a number of guest appearances on different television shows from the 1950s through the 1980s including National Broadcasting Company"s National Velvet, Family Affair,Gunsmoke, and Bonanza. She made a guest appearance on Perry Mason in 1962 as defendant Jennifer Wakely in "The Case of the Fickle Filly." in 1966, she guest starred on The Manitoba From United Network Command for Law and Enforcement in "The Bat Cave Affair." She appeared four times on the National Broadcasting Company western series The Virginian.
Her last motion picture performance came as "Mistress Jarvis" in the 1984 horror film, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter.