[5][6][8] She lived her married life in Belle Harbor and the Rockaways, New York until her death in October 1956.

[5][6] Bartley began acting as a child,[1] appearing in the talkie film The Laughing Lady in 1929.

[13] Over the course of her career, she had appeared in films and stage productions with Maurice Chevalier, Fredric March, Ed Wynn, Nancy Carroll, and Abbott and Costello.

[14] In 1946, Bartley married MGM stage and story editor Howard Hoyt,[15] with whom she had a son, William B.

She married advertising executive Edgar Krass in September 1959,[5] and they had a son in June 1960.