Edith Tooker)

1929 is born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn to Wilber and Mary Tooker, nee Dougan

becomes a model at the age of 11

becomes a "Miss Rheingold" finalist at the age of 16 and is then disqualified for being underage

1946 marries William Symons, owner of a photo studio, at age 16

May 1948 is a highly paid New York model and poses as a prize-winning skater in a Cutex advertisement

Symons walks out on her after three years of marriage, so she travels to Mexico for a divorce

agent Louis Shurr signs her as a client

poses for a Decca record album cover. Jim Henaghan, an executive with John Wayne’s Batjac company, signs her for $250 a week.

26 October 1953 tagged an actress, model, and mother, she is on the cover of Life

November 1953 Winchell reports her and her ex, Bill Symons, smitten again

November 1956 John Wayne signs her to a contract with his firm, Batjac. He has Anita Ekberg, with whom Vikki was in Back to Eternity, under a similar contract.

1958 is dropped by Batjac after one year

29 August 1960 she and actor Jim Sweeney, former Texas Christian football halfback, get their marriage license in Los Angeles. She displays a diamond engagement ring and another band she calls a friendship ring - both on the fourth toe of her left foot.

3 September 1960 as Edythe A. Tooker, she marries James R. Sweeney at the Modernistic Wayfarers' Chapel in Palos Verde Estates, California. He's 25; she's 24. She is dressed in a modest yellow gingham and organdy dress. Her friend Gloria Pall is among the guests.

18 January 1963 appears in Los Angeles court to divorce Sweeney. She claims he deserted her after going through her $10,000 savings. She accepts only $1 per month alimony for two and one-half years of marriage.

January 1964 is featured in the nude in Cavalier. A lawsuit later envelops and will end in court.

November 69 says Cavalier magazine paid her $75,000 to settle a suit brought after it displayed her in the nude in a 1964 issue. The magazine's publisher, Fawcett Publications, Inc., says it didn't pay that much. She claims she posed nude for photos to be used in Playboy. She later backed out. Then 12 shots of her in the altogether showed up in Cavalier without her permission.

she resides in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles