Career
Cooper began her career in the 1950s. Her first starring role was as Myra in 1953's western The Redhead from Wyoming. She also appeared as a player in films with stars like Maureen O'Hara, Glenn Ford, Tony Curtis, and Henry Fonda. Cooper was a fixture on episodic television throughout the 1960s and 1970s. In 1957, she starred in one of the early episodes of NBC's Tales of Wells Fargo in the unlikely role of the woman bandit Belle Starr.
During the nine-year run on CBS of Perry Mason, Cooper made five guest appearances, beginning with the role of Laura Beaumont in the 1958 episode, "The Case of the Corresponding Corpse." During the final season of the show, she made her fifth and final appearance as Miriam Fielding in the 1966 episode, "The Case of the Vanishing Victim."
In 1965, she appeared in the western television series The Big Valley as Elaine Baxter Jason, a mercantile store owner and an old friend of Victoria Barkley. In another episode she appears as Heath's money-hungry aunt. Her husband was portrayed by John Anderson, who years later became known as MacGyver's grandfather, Harry Jackson.
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