[3] King's stage career began in a stock company in Minneapolis.

[5] She was also in the Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic,[6] and performed on the roof of the New Amsterdam Theatre.

[7] She was considered to have the "stage's most beautiful legs", along with Ann Pennington and Mistinguett.

[8] She was in the same sextet of Ziegfeld dancers as Elizabeth Meehan and Billie Dove.

[10] King married English-born theatrical producer and director James Edward Royce (1870–1964)[11] in 1925.