With her husband, she helped organize actors, writers and executives to march in the 1960s with the Rev.
Martin Luther King in Montgomery, AL. She also marshaled the entertainment community to participate in protests against the Vietnam War and nuclear weapons, among other national and local causes. Later in life, she developed an interest in photography. When her photographs illustrated the
Howard Fast book "The Art of Zen Meditation", the Los Angeles Times' 1977 review called the book "beautiful.".