 She continued in films as a character player.Summers first attracted attention in 1958 in the semi-regular role as Hattie Denton on the western series "The Rifleman", starring Chuck Connors.She guest starred on dozens of series including "Maverick", "Wagon Train", "State Trooper", "Rescue 8", "Peter Gunn", "Dennis the Menace", "It's a Man's World", "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", "Hazel", "Gunsmoke", "The Danny Thomas Show", "My Three Sons", "Petticoat Junction", "Love on a Rooftop", "The Pruitts of Southampton", "The Second Hundred Years", "Adam-12" and "The Paul Lynde Show", and was a regular in the cast of the short-lived 1978 situation comedy "Another Day".