Lynn Borden Biography

Fast Facts

• Won the Miss Arizona pageant in 1957 and was a runner-up for the Miss America title later that year
• Graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in theater
• Was enrolled in acting classes by her mother as a child as a way to help her overcome her shyness
• Got her first credited speaking role on the TV series "Hawaiian Eye․"
• Best known for playing Barbara Baxter in "Hazel" and Cutter in "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice․"
• Inherited her father's collection of elephant figurines and started her own collection of frog figurines after appearing in the 1972 film "Frogs․"
• Met the creator of "Hazel," cartoonist Ted Key, during filming and discovered that he and her father, Bill Freyse, had worked together on an adaptation of Freyse's comic strip "Major Hoople" that was set to star W․C․ Fields before the actor's death