[2] Bryant began her career as an actress playing minor characters in film as The Broken Melody (1938) and Gone to the Dogs (1939).

[4] In June 1941, while in Singapore promoting Forty Thousand Horsemen,[4] Bryant fell in love with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer sales manager Maurice "Red" Silverstein (died 1999), and they got married a few days later in Sydney; the couple would go on to have three children.

[2] She became pregnant with her first child in 1942 and had to withdraw from her role as Carol Beldon (later played by Teresa Wright) in Mrs. Miniver.

However, due to a combination of factors, including her inability to find a babysitter for her then two-year-old son, her disengaged attitude, and her falling sick during production, Bryant was ultimately replaced by Amelita Ward.

She founded the Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific (FSP) together with her husband and Australian Marist priest Stan Hosie in 1966; at the time of her death, the organisation had some sixty branches worldwide.