So Mary Laura Briley doesn't ring a bell ???
Then how about ......
Though it has taken a long while, I just ran across this extensive biography of Laura Devon on IMDB.
Sadly, "our" beautiful Tatia Loring passed away over a year ago.
It had always been most difficult to find out much information about her, but this biography on IMDB answers many questions. Enjoy!!
(I've added some photos - in her honor - to help illustrate this bio. 
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Gorgeous, well-endowed singer/actress Laura Devon arrived in Tinseltown during the early 1960s, but gave notice less than a decade later and retired permanently after her second marriage. She made only five films. Laura was categorized as one of those beautiful bouffant blondes of film and TV who were usually cast as diverting set decoration -- the equally blonde lovelies Sharon Tate, Yvette Mimieux and Dorothy Provine, come first to mind.
She was born Mary Lou Briley in Chicago, Illinois on May 23, 1931, the daughter of Merrill Devon, an auto engineer of Swedish, Scottish and Irish descent, and a mother of Dutch heritage. Her family later moved to Grosse Point, Michigan where she attended University High School. Her interest in singing came at a fairly young age and by her early teens was performing. Graduating from the University of Michigan where she majored in journalism and political science, she began acting on stage in such musicals as "The Boyfriend" at the Vanguard Playhouse in Detroit.
In 1961, Laura was spotted singing at a Detroit night club by a 20th Century-Fox talent agent and given a screen test. Universal also took an interest in her photogenic beauty and signed her instead. Laura's first year under contract involved intensive study in acting, singing and dance before she even started making the rounds on TV. Eventually, she appeared in such popular programs as "Route 66" (1960) and "The Twilight Zone" (1959), her big break coming when she and another budding actress, June Harding, were hired as ensemble cast members on "The Richard Boone Show" (1963), an anthology TV series also featuring veterans Boone, Warren Stevens, Jeanette Nolan, Harry Morgan, Robert Blake, Guy Stockwell, Bethel Leslie and Ford Rainey.
TWILIGHT ZONE "Jess-Belle" with Laura Devon, I SPY alumni James Best, and Anne Francis
Falling easily into the Hollywood scene, Laura had dated handsome actor Brian Kelly back in Detroit (his native city). Their romance ended when he went to Hollywood but rekindled again when she too made it to Hollywood in 1961. They married a year later and the good-looking couple became a part of the "in crowd" while moving up the acting ladder. A couple of months after their June wedding, they appeared together in Lillian Hellman's steamy drama "Toys in the Attic" at the Laguna Beach Summer Theater.
Laura Devon and Brian Kelly
Laura made her film debut as a second female lead in the Tony Curtis/Debbie Reynolds gender-bending romp "Goodbye Charlie" (1964). Laura figured prominently in all the sexual hijinks happening in the taunting George Axelrod script, but the film was considered a misfire.
GOODBYE CHARLIE with Walter Matthau, Laura Devon, and Tony Curtis
Laura then got hot and heavy in "Red Line 7000" (1965), one of Howard Hawks later and lesser efforts. Again, Laura (and the other ladies, for that matter) provided diverting distraction from the stock car racing sequences.
Still moving up the ranks, she was prominently display on "Bonanza" (1959), "The Rogues" (1964), "Rawhide", "I Spy", "The Big Valley" and enjoyed a recurring role on "Dr. Kildare."
( ... Plus in 1966, she also appeared on Robert Loggia's series "T.H.E. Cat" and on "The Fugitive" where she co-starred in an episode with I SPY alumni Paul Richards - a.k.a. Chanetsov in "The Spy Business.")
THE FUGITIVE - "The Chinese Sunset" with Laura Devon and Paul Richards (1966)
And as TATIA LORING on I SPY ....
Of course, when speaking of I SPY, we can't forget the
intriguing interest she also appeared to have in a certain Asian military man .....
Her last three films were the horror opus "Chamber of Horrors" (1966), which had Patrick O'Neal stirring up some demented antics as a serial strangler. Again, not hired for her character's brilliance, Laura does manage the classic one liner, "What am I thinking? He is the easiest man in the world to identify. He only has one hand!"
The next film involved her with handsome George Maharis and another strangling
in the so-so melodrama "A Covenant with Death" (1967).
Her final film was probably the best received. With Craig Stevens taking his popular Peter Gunn gumshoe character from TV to feature length film, the atmospheric detective story "Gunn" (1967) had, at the very least, a built-in audience.
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The singing aspect of Laura also managed to show itself here. She recorded two of
Henry Mancini's songs from the movie, "I Like the Look" and "Dreamsville."
By this time, Laura's first marriage had dissolved. Husband Brian had become a TV star via his Porter Ricks character on the dolphin show "Flipper" (1964). Within a year of their divorce, Laura married renowned French film composer Maurice Jarre, hailed for his Oscar-winning scores in "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962), "Doctor Zhivago" (1965) and "A Passage to India" (1984). Laura immediately retired and never looked back. She and Jarre divorced in 1984. Little was heard from Laura until notice of her 2007 death at her Beverly Hills residence at age 76. She is survived by her screenwriting son Kevin Jarre.
Biography by Gary Brumburgh on IMDB
(Thank you Gary!!)
Laura Devon
May 22, 1931 - July 19, 2007
As always,
Tatia
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