Albright's film career petered out around 1968, the year she played David Niven's wife and the mother of a nubile teen-age daughter in "The Impossible Years."

Unlike other film actors who were slow to take the plunge into TV, Albright was actively working in the medium from 1951, when she guest-starred in two episodes of "Lux Video Theatre." Throughout the 50s, she appeared made numerous guest appearances, including several during the 1955-56 TV season as a love interest on "The Bob Cummings Show." Albright was on "Peter Gunn" (NBC/ABC 1958-1961) for its entire three-season run and, in 1965, replaced an ailing Dorothy Malone for part of the season on "Peyton Place" (ABC 1964-69).

Before her are Ann Dowd (1956), Moses Gunn (1929), Tom Welling (1977), Amy Brenneman (1964), Darlene Cates (1947), and Brad Harris (1933). In 1958, Albright landed the role of Edie Hart in Peter Gunn (1959), for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress (Continuing Character) in a Dramatic Series.

Her role required singing and led to the 1957 release of her music album Lola Wants You, as well as her album 1959 Dreamsville, in which her songs were accompanied by Henry Mancini and his orchestra.

Albright's popularity led to several major film roles, including Elvis Presley's 1962 film, Kid Galahad; the 1964 French film Les Felins by director René Clément; and the epic western The Way West.

Later in 1964 she appeared as Duff Daniels in the episode "Sticks and Stones Can Break My Bones" with her former Peter Gunn co-star Craig Stevens in his short-lived CBS drama Mr.

Broadway.

In 1966, she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress award at the 16th Berlin International Film Festival for her role in Lord Love a Duck.

In 1968, Albright appeared in The Impossible Years, with David Niven and Christina Ferrare, and in Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? with Doris Day. She also appeared in the NBC medical drama The Eleventh Hour.

Albright temporarily replaced Dorothy Malone as Constance Mackenzie on the hit primetime soap opera Peyton Place, when Malone had to undergo emergency surgery.

She worked as a model before heading to Hollywood, where she made her film debut in The Pirate (1948). She continued to perform both in film and as a guest actor in a number of TV series until her retirement in the early 1980s. Albright was also known to TV viewers as Edie Hart, the girlfriend of Craig Stevens' "Peter Gunn" (NBC, 1958-60; ABC 1960-61).

Yet, for all the programmers, there were shots such as "A Cold Wind in August," in which Albright again won critical acclaim, this time for playing an aging stripper. Among people deceased in 2017, Lola Albright ranks 328.