Totter, who was living in the Motion Picture and Television Home in recent years, had a stroke and suffered from congestive heart failure, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Totter began her career as a radio actress, but her big film breakthrough came in 1947, when she starred as a publishing executive opposite Robert Montgomery in 'Lady in the Lake'.
She went on to star in several films including 'The Set-Up', 'High Wall' and 'The Unsuspected'.
Her last role came in 1987, when she played a small part in an episode of US TV drama 'Murder, She Wrote'.