Was only 13 when she played Steve Reeves' love interest in The Last Days of Pompeii (1959). Reeves was well past 30. Nobody seemed to mind in those days. In her memoirs, Kaufmann admitted she found it rather funny back then. She admitted to have fallen in love with actor Ángel Aranda with whom she co-starred in two movies, but she easily "switched off" her feelings when he told her he was gay.