She made her Broadway debut in Orson Welles's Native Son in 1941, and appeared with frequency on the New York stage through 1952.
She appeared in several minor roles in films, beginning with the parts of Ruth in Child of Divorce (1946) and Judy Clark in The Devil on Wheels (1947).
She became one of the world's first soap opera stars, first appearing in the earliest years of that genre as Dr. Eve Allen, one of the first women doctors portrayed on television, in The Greatest Gift (1954-1955).
After working for several businesses in the United States and England, he ultimately became an executive with the Meadow River Lumber Company, where he finished his career.
[2][3] Anne spent her high-school years at Oxford School in Hartford, where she acted in plays staged by the Oxford School Association, beginning with a performance of Mary Gilbertson's adaptation of the French Christmas story The Legend of the Crèche, which was performed in December 1931.
In her freshman year, she starred in a stage adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's short story "The Sire de Maletroit's Door" (1936).
[15] Burr began her professional career as an actress as a member of the Farragut Players in Rye Beach, New Hampshire;[15] sje made her debut with the company as Isla in Edgar Wallace's Criminal At Large with Alison Skipworth as Lady Lebanon on July 9, 1940.
On radio, she appeared as Regina Rawlings on Backstage Wife from 1948 until 1949, and once her character was written out of the series, she returned again in a similar role as Claudia Vincent.