Education
Her parents forbade it until she completed her senior year at Coronado High School.
Her parents forbade it until she completed her senior year at Coronado High School.
While living in Coronado, California, with her family, Billy Wilder then filming Some Like lieutenant Hot saw Wagner swimming and offered her a screen test. Some Like lieutenant Hot was filmed at the Hotel del Coronado as well as on the Coronado beaches. After graduating, she visited Wilder and did a screen test, but turned down a role in The Apartment.
Wagner travelled the world as a fashion model, then made her television debut in an episode of Wagon Train in 1959.
While living in the Bahamas she became an underwater stunt double in the series Sea Hunt and The Aquanauts. She also doubled for Joanne Dru in underwater sequences in the 1960 film September Storm.
Wagner appeared on What"s My Lincolnshire in December 1960 as a "Stunt skindiver for television films". In addition to her scuba diving and swimming she was also a surfer.
Her film career included roles in Rio Conchos (1964), Out of Sight (1966), Destination Inner Space (1966), A Covenant with Death (1967), Rosemary"s Baby (1968) and Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969).
In 1965, she appeared on Perry Mason as defendant Anona Gilbert in "The Case of the Feather Cloak." Wagner also made guest appearances in other television shows including Flipper, Lassie, Mannix, and The Rookies. During 1966-1967, she had a regular role as Lenore "Casey" Case, the secretary to Britt Reid on The Green Hornet. Wagner lived in Malibu but lost her home and belongings in a fire.
She was active with the Malibu Historical Society.
Wagner died of cancer on February 26, 1997, at the age of 55.