[2] She skated (as Belita Jepson-Turner) for the United Kingdom in the 1936 Winter Olympics, where she was placed 16th in the singles, then her career turned towards Hollywood.

Later she worked with A-list stars Charles Laughton in The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949, and Clark Gable in Never Let Me Go (1953).

She appeared briefly on the ice at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1981 in a short production based on "Solitude" by Duke Ellington.

I hated the cold, the smell, everything about it,” and that she did it “for the money.”[4] Belita married Joel McGinnis in 1946; they divorced in 1956.

Belita retired from her second career, as a landscape nursery owner,[3] and later relocated to Montpeyroux, Hérault, France, where she died in 2005, aged 82.