This quality of not becoming emotional was exploited in the Vic and Sade show, where she would play the role of straight man to the comic daffiness.
[4] In 1932, Paul Rhymer chose Flynn to play Sade as the character lacked a sense of humor.
The 15-minute program on CBS had Kirby delivering straight news items and Flynn handling human-interest reports.
She also played Lorna Corey in the soap opera Hawkins Falls, Population 6200, which ran on NBC from 1951 to 1955.
[9] After Vic and Sade completed its run on the radio, she joined the touring company of "Apple of His Eye," which starred Walter Huston.
")[11] During World War II, while Dr. Doherty was serving as a flight surgeon in the Army Air Corps at several bases in the US, Flynn also worked as a radio reporter for a daily news program.