[3][5] "Stagestruck" as a child, her desire to become an entertainer was encouraged by two sisters who were members of another family living in the same apartment building as the Garvins.

Then, in 1926, she was hired by Hal Roach Studios, where over the next several years she appeared in many silent shorts with Charley Chase, James Finlayson, Max Davidson, and Laurel and Hardy.

"[9] In a 1978 interview for an article in the Los Angeles Times, she reflects on her frequent work with Stan Laurel during that period:One thing about Stan—with apologies to a lot of directors—they thought they were directing him.

The best-known of the three Garvin-Byron comedies is A Pair of Tights, an "acknowledged masterpiece"[5] in which the girls go out on a double date with tightwads Edgar Kennedy and Stuart Erwin.

She continued to work as well in Laurel and Hardy shorts with Hal Roach, such as in the 1930 release Blotto in which she plays Stan's feisty wife.

[13] Quoting Garvin herself, the newspaper in an August 6 new item shares her main reason for ending the four-year marriage:"I had to make a living for both of us," said Mrs. Beauchamp.

"[13]Later in 1930, after finalizing her divorce from Beauchamp, Garvin married Clifford "Red" Stanley, a bandleader and music editor for a film studio.

[14] During the first decade of their marriage, Garvin continued to perform in films, but by 1942 she retired from acting to devote more time to raising the couple's two children.

The Sons of the Desert — an international fraternal organization devoted to the lives and films of Laurel and Hardy — honored her career at their membership meetings in 1978 and 1989.

[15][16] Five years after her last appearance before The Sons of the Desert, Garvin died at the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California.