[2] Friderici did not aspire to be an actress, but rather an acting and elocution teacher.

[3] An admirer of her recitals introduced her to impresario David Belasco, who cast her in The Darling of the Gods.

In Night Nurse (1931), which starred Barbara Stanwyck and Clark Gable, she played a housekeeper too frightened to protect two children from a murder attempt.

Her last film role was as a motel owner's wife in It Happened One Night (1934).

[2] On December 24, 1933,[6] was on her way by automobile to attend a Christmas service at General Grant National Park with her stage manager husband, Donald Campbell; she died of a heart attack just after they reached Visalia, California.