Later Life and Premature Death
It was while filming Candy in Rome that she reportedly met Marquand’s friend, actor Marlon Brando, who was playing the role of a charlatan guru in the film. According to Charles Higham's 1987 book, Brando, the Unauthorized Biography, the fiftyish Brando and 20-something actress became a couple. She abandoned Hollywood for a real estate job in New Mexico in 1976. Brando’s 1994 autobiography, Songs My Mother Taught Me, discusses their relationship, but disguises certain details of her life and refers to her by the name "Weonna". She returned to Southern California and Brando in the early 1980s, reportedly to develop scripts.
In 1982, her Toyota was hit by a truck on Ventura Freeway. Thrown from the vehicle, she died at 3 AM, August 7, 1982 in North Hollywood's Riverside Hospital. She was 35 years old. Her grave is located at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.
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