Trivia

(In response to her last credit from Love American Style in 1970, and why she left the industry) "I was divorced at that point and I was dating a man, and I was up for a role at 20th Century Fox; I was up for a second lead in a film.... All weekend, my boyfriend was acting really strange. Just kind of cold and odd, and finally... I said, 'What's going on?' And he said... I just know you're going to get this role, and I just can't see being married to an actress. And that's what did it. Married? (laughs.) Stupidly, stupidly, I called my agent, I was with William Morris, I called my agent Monday morning and said that I was quitting, and canceled the interview, and never worked again. (I did marry the man... and was married to him for quite a while.)"

Ms. Hillyer later relates how she later did PTA (and volunteer) work, having borne a child, and later went to college (for nine years), deciding on becoming a psychologist, that is, a marriage specialty therapist, while maintaining an office in California. She later shifted from therapy to being a life coach. ("Splat From The Past #1481," 2022 interview featured on YouTube.).

In regard to the 1967 film, A Guide for the Married Man, and her uncredited role as "Zelda": "The scene was, I was in bed with him (Joey Bishop), and it was the first time I did anything like that, I was supposedly naked, but they gave me some little pasties for my breasts, so I wasn't totally totally naked, and I had panties on, but during the scene I had to jump out of bed and quickly put on clothes and leave the room, because the guy's wife came in, and... so, Joey Bishop was not a nice person. He was not at all. He was coming on to me, and asked me out, and what made me really really mad was that he knew my husband at the time, and was still doing that, which I thought was really poor form." ("Splat From The Past #1481," 2022 interview featured on YouTube.)

Regarding other "#MeToo" experiences, Ms. Hillyer related, "There was a lot of that. In the beginning I didn't know how to handle that," but that she got better at waving it off, without getting ""upset or scared." She added, "There were enough people who would go along with it, especially to get roles," and "a lot of guys would take a shot and see." She added she was never interested because "I never was passionate about acting... It was never the thing I lived and breathed and I would do anything to get the role," also adding, "it was pretty common all the time.".

(Actress/casting director and wife of Eric Roberts) "Eliza Roberts... was my daughter-in-law, when I was married before." ("Splat From The Past #1481," 2022 interview featured on YouTube.).