Today's audiences probably know her best as the catty career woman in the Bill Haley musical Rock Around the Clock (1956).

Her one appearance with the Sextet was in the Phil Silvers-Jimmy Durante comedy You're in the Army Now (1941), in which she received screen billing for the first time, as Alice Talton.

She left Hollywood to work in stage plays, and only when she felt confident in her abilities did she return to motion pictures.

She returned in a Republic Pictures western in 1949 (as Alice Talton), and went on to a busy freelance career as a character actress.

She appeared in the films Ranger of Cherokee Strip, In a Lonely Place, The Great Jewel Robber, Fourteen Hours, Sally and Saint Anne, Tangier Incident, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Cha-Cha-Cha Boom!, The Deadly Mantis, Romanoff and Juliet and The Devil's Brigade, among others.