ABCNews -- Seven decades ago, Mary Ellen Bendtsen was the toast of Dallas society. A musician and model who made the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine, Bendtsen is also said to have posed for the giant statues in Dallas's historic Fair Park. "The way a lot of people describe her is larger than life," Lee Hancock, a Dallas Morning News reporter, told ABC News. At the heart of Bendtsen's glamour was the extravagant mansion her family owned at 4949 Swiss Ave. The house had a mahogany stairway, a pair of baby grand pianos, chandeliers and fireplaces everywhere, and a mirror the size of Texas. For Bendtsen, it was center stage. "She'd come walking down that staircase like a 1940s movie queen," remembered friend Bea Grayson. Watch the full story Friday on...