The audience later finds out the phantom actually represented Death and that she had been killed in a car accident all along.
Other commercials, for Tide, Lustre-Creme and Kent cigarettes, soon followed.
The great competitiveness and phony sense of accomplishment we have here can be very destructive.
The relationship was fraught with tension and was marked by long separations.
She was however largely an outcast and this made her unhappy.
Inger Stevens was a Swedish-American actress who was active in the movie industry in the early 1950s to 1970.