[1][2] Broadway appearances by Beatrice Maude included roles in The Happy Ending (1916), Seventeen (1918),[3] Jonathan Makes a Wish (1918), A Night in Avignon (1919), George Washington (1920), in which she played Betsy Ross,[4] The Married Woman (1921-1922),[5] The World We Live In (1922-1923), in which she played a butterfly,[6][7] Try It With Alice (1924),[8] The Buccaneer (1925),[9] Tragic 18 (1926),[10] The Light of Asia (1928), Mourning Becomes Electra (1932), The Show Off (1932), and Dodsworth (1934-1935).

[11][12][13] In 1928, Maude ran a summer stock company in Stamford, Connecticut, and hired actor Robert Montgomery.

[19] Maude acted in films, including The Final Judgment (1915, silent), Dodsworth (1936),[20] Arkansas Judge (1941), Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941),[14] Born to Kill (1947), Lawless Code (1949), Slaves of Babylon (1953), Women's Prison (1955), and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956).

On television, she played small roles on Your Favorite Story (1954), I Married Joan (1955), and I Led 3 Lives (1955).

Her mother's papers including letters to Beatrice, are archived in the New York Public Library's Jerome Robbins Dance Division.