McGiveney earned a
Golden Globe nomination from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as Most Promising Newcomer of 1966 for her role as Claire Hackett in the farce
Do Not Disturb with
Doris Day and
Rod Taylor. She was also in the films
Twist Around the Clock with
Chubby Checker,
W.I.A. Wounded in Action", Once You Kiss a Stranger and
Destination America. McGiveney was a comedian and singer as well as an actress. In what she hoped would be her ticket to fame, she appeared in a program similar to the successful TV show
Laugh-In titled
Turn-On. ''Turn on's
sole episode aired on February 5, 1969, with the curvaceous McGiveney as "The Body Politic". The rather sexually explicit theme, jokes and remarks of Turn-On'' led to ABC affiliates refusing to broadcast the second episode, and the sponsor
Bristol-Myers immediately canceled it. McGiveney died in 1990 in Los Angeles after a battle with liver disease. She was survived by her long-time partner, the television scriptwriter
Worley Thorne. ==Filmography==