 Loden made her New York theater debut in 1957 in "Compulsion" and also appeared on stage in "The Highest Tree" with Robert Redford as well as "Night Circus" with Ben Gazzara.She joined the cast of "The Ernie Kovacs Show" as a "scantily clad" sidekick to Kovacs, a job that her first husband, television producer and film distributor Larry Joachim, helped her obtain.She said she owed a lot to Kovacs, as another producer on the show had initially vetoed Kovacs's decision to hire her.