[1] Ray became a serial heroine for Pathe Pictures, acting and performing stunts that included riding her horse, "teetering on the roofs of buildings and jumping into lakes".

In making The Fortieth Door (1924), Ray decided to wear a brunette wig as the film featured an Egyptian heroine.

She was teamed with action star Walter Miller for a long string of serials, including The Way of a Man (1924), Sunken Silver (1925), Hawk of the Hills (1927), and The Black Book (1929).

[2] The Miller-Ray partnership ended abruptly in 1929, when the new talking-picture technology revealed that Ray's high, piping voice didn't fit her adventurous screen personality.

[3] After she left the film business in 1931, Ray worked as a seamstress and a fitter in Temple City, California, after which she enrolled in a real-estate school and passed a test to become a broker.