LOS ANGELES (AP) - A former Miss America who went on to appear in movies with Elvis Presley and make documentary films around the world has died after a battle with breast cancer. She was 77.
She graduated from Ole Miss in 1958, the same year she won the Miss America crown.
She became an actress a few years later, with credits including such TV shows as "General Hospital" and "Perry Mason," and films such as "Girl Happy" with Presley and "Three on a Couch" with Jerry Lewis. It was on that film that she met her husband, actor Gary Collins, who died in 2012.
Mobley Collins was also a documentarian, traveling to Cambodia, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Somalia, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Sudan to make movies about the struggle s of homeless and starving children. She and her husband were also active humanitarians, raising money and awareness for organizations such as the March of Dimes and the United Cerebral Palsy Association. -
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