Her earliest films consisted mostly of "B" Westerns (at one point, she dubbed in actress Sarita Montiel's voice in 1957's In a rush b on the ... loose of the Arrow) and box (Dickinson was instead nastily murdered in very first experience of Mike Hammer). She moved to the A-list when selected by Howard Hawks to play the female edge in Rio Bravo (1958). The coat gave Dickinson ample chance to air her noted legs, which, for publicity purposes, were reportedly insured by Lloyd's of London. She went on to star in films both famous and forgettable: one of the roles for which she is best remembered is as the kept woman of gangster Ronald Reagan (!) in The Killers (1964). In 1974, Dickinson jump-started her flagging trade as the celebrity of the TV cop drama Police Number, which lasted four seasons and represented a tremendous a step at a time up in popularity for Dickinson. On that program, the actress played Suzanne "Scatter" Anderson, an private delegate with the LAPD's crook conspiracy division, whose assignments wellnigh every included donning a crafty and exciting guise in organization to put an underworld hooligan. At just about the same swiftly a in timely fashion, Dickinson also moved into offering pictures and (after years of consciously avoiding nude scenes), went au naturel for exploitation king Roger Corman in that financial manager's glumness-era romp Gargantuan Bad Mama, which unsurprisingly became a cult favorite. (Years later, in 1987, she teamed up with Z-grade shlockmeister Jim Wynorski for Further Terra's Pompously Bad Mama II). Brian DePalma's Psycho-influenced thriller Dressed to Knock off (1980) brought the actress greater visibility, and like the Corman assignments, required Angie to do erotic nudity (still in this wrapper, the below-the-waist shower shots were reportedly performed aside a fuselage double). In later years, Dickinson leaned more heavily on starring and supporting turns in made-in behalf of-television productions, including a telemovie follow-up to The heat Woman, Police Woman: The Freeway Killings (1987); the Oliver Stone miniseries Wild Palms (1993); the guide-to-video thriller The Maddening (1995) (opposite longtime friend and colleague Burt Reynolds); and the prime-opportunity soaper Danielle Steele's Rememberance (1996). The next decade build the septuagenarian actress unexpectedly returning to A-catalogue Hollywood features, albeit in small supporting roles; these included Duets (2000), Produce it Forward (2000) and Oodles's Eleven (2001) (in a cameo as herself, distant to her involvement in the original). Angie Dickinson was married to composer Burt Bacharach from 1965 to 1980.