Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whānau a Beatrice Benaderet i te 4 o Aperira, 1906, i New York City. Ko tana whaea, ko Margaret (née O'Keefe), he Amerikana Irish, a ko tona papa, ko Samuel David Benaderet, he manene Sephardic Turkish, he kaihoko tapahi i neke te whanau mai i New York ki San Francisco i te tau 1915 whai muri i tana whai waahi ki te
Ko te Whakaaturanga Ao o Panama-Pacific. I taua tau ano, i whakatuwherahia e ia he toa hikareti e whakahaere ana mo nga tau 65, na reira ko ia te toa toa tawhito rawa atu i California i te wa i katia ai i te 1980.