Career
Loughery, a red head, went on to represent the United States of America at the very first Mission Universe pageant, where she placed ninth. In 1951 she appeared in the short-lived variety show Seven at Eleven. In 1954, she was Johnny Carson"s assistant in the short lived game show "Earn Your Vacation".
She appeared in several films, including the 1956 comedy Pardners with Martin and Lewis and the 1957 drama The Doctorate.I. ("Drill Instructor"), with Jack Webb, whom she would marry.
She was featured in 1957"s Eighteen and Anxious and top-billed in the following year"s The Hot Angel. In 1956, Loughery co-starred with Edgar Buchanan and Jack Buetel in the syndicated western television series Judge Roy Bean, having appeared as Bean"s niece, Letty.
Buetel, a star of the 1941 film The Outlaw, was cast in the series as Bean"s deputy, Jeff Taggert. Loughery also had non-recurring roles in numerous television programs through the 1950s and 1960s, including the syndicated western 26 Men in the episode "Runaway Stage".
In 1958, she appeared in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
In 1957 and 1958 she made five guest appearances on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show. Three as Joyce Collins and the other two as Vicki Donovan. That marriage ended and she remarried, to actor Jack Webb, in July 1958.