Personal Life
Prentiss and actor/director Richard Benjamin married on October 26, 1961; her career was soaring while Benjamin still struggled for acting roles. In 1965, while filming What's New, Pussycat in Paris, Prentiss suffered a nervous breakdown which kept her out of films for five years, returning to work with Benjamin in the short-lived television series, He and She. The couple also appeared together in Catch-22 (1970) and Saturday the 14th (1981), as well as various plays.
They have two adult children, Ross and Prentiss, and live in the Hollywood Hills.
Ann Prentiss, her sister, was also an actress.
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