Career
She used the screen name "Cindy Robbins" in her acting credits. Her first acting role on television was in 1955, in the episode Moonfire of the television western series Brave Eagle. Her last acting role in television was on the television comedy series McHale"s Navy in 1964.
Her most well-known role was Carol Porter, one of the daughters in the one-season sit-com The Tom Ewell Show (1960-1961).
She also made two guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of Teddi Hart in the 1960 episode, "The Case of the Treacherous Toupee."
Her other television work consisted of appearances in comedy shows (Ensign O"Toole, Father Knows Best, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Leave lieutenant To Beaver), military/action shows (Steve Canyon, Whirlybirds, Harbor Command), westerns (Wagon Train, Outlaws, The Tall Manitoba), and dramas (Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, Tightrope, Dragnet). She appeared in several films from 1957 to 1959:
I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) playing Pearl, Vic"s Girl
Dino (1957), a Sal Mineo drama, playing Sylvia
Rockabilly Baby (1957), a film about family secrets and small-town life (featuring Les Brown and His Band of Renown), playing Vougette #1
Gunsight Ridge (1957), a Joel McCrea Western, playing the Bride
This Earth Is Mine (1959), a Rock Hudson drama about California wine country, playing Buz Dietrick
Producing/Writing In the mid-1980s, she produced/wrote several American Broadcasting Company Weekend Specials (notably, Pippi Longstocking) and a Columbia Broadcasting System Schoolbreak Special.
She was also a writer in 1984 for the television cartoon series Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats. In 1986, she shared in the nomination for a Daytime Emmy in the category Outstanding Writing in a Children"s Special, for the American Broadcasting Company Weekend Special The Adventures of Con Sawyer and Hucklemary Finn.