Lime's first film appearance was in
The Rainmaker (1956), as Snookie Maguire. In 1957, she was cast in films, in an uncredited part as Sally in
Elvis Presley's
Loving You and in
Michael Landon's
I Was a Teenage Werewolf, and with top billing in
Dragstrip Riot (1958). She and TV producer Don Fedderson married in 1969, and had a daughter, Dionne Fedderson; he had seven children from two previous marriages, including actor
Mike Minor. Lime and actress Sara Buckner O'Meara, who met when they were guest stars on
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, launched International Orphans Inc., a charity that built and maintained four orphanages in Japan and five orphanages, a hospital, and a school in
Vietnam. Lime and O'Meara later devoted their efforts to assist neglected children in the United States and renamed their group,
Childhelp, an organization based in
Scottsdale, Arizona. The two were also involved in
Operation Babylift at the time of the American military evacuation during the
Fall of Saigon. From 1960 to 1961, Lime co-starred as Sally Day on the
NBC sitcom
Happy. She and
Ronnie Burns played owners of a motel in southern California who have a talking baby, Happy. She also appeared in varying roles from 1956 to 1958 in eleven episodes of
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show. Lime's first television appearance was on her future husband's
The Millionaire as Eileen in "The Story of Jane Costello." She appeared in 1956 as Mary Lou Carter in the episode, "The Select Females," of the
CBS series
The Adventures of Jim Bowie. In 1957, she portrayed Gloria Binks in the
Hardy Boys serial,
The Mystery of Ghost Farm. That same year she played Mary in "A Coney Island Wedding" on the
ABC series
Crossroads. In 1958, she played Iris on "Ladies' Aide", an episode of ''
The People's Choice.'' From 1959 to 1961, she appeared twice each on two CBS sitcoms,
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis and
Bringing Up Buddy. Lime also was cast in episodes of NBC's
Wichita Town and
Bat Masterson, and on CBS's
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. Her last acting role was on her husband's sitcom
My Three Sons as Linda in the 1968 episode "The Grandfathers". ==Later life and death==