[1] Dobson began her career-proper aged 7 in Little Lord Fauntleroy,[2] another of her father's productions,[3] before she was sent to school and left the stage again until her teenage years.

[6][7] Dobson also wrote plays, and in 1936 her work Dark Brother tied for second prize in the Adelaide Advertiser's Centenary playwright competition.

[3][8] She opened her own stagecraft studio in 1935,[5] and ran the Crawford School of Broadcasting when it was founded in 1952 with fellow actor Moira Carlton.

[9] In the late 1950s and 1960s Dobson appeared as Mrs Sharpshott on ABC Melbourne's radio serial The Village Glee Club.

[1] In her later years, Dobson lived in a nursing home in Oakleigh, Victoria, with support from the Actors' Benevolent Fund.