[4] Her publicist staged a photograph of her, bathing in "strong black coffee", to add to her mystique.

[4] D'Antonio's film credits included roles in Another Thin Man (1939), Destry Rides Again (1939), Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940),[9][10] Angels over Broadway (1940),[11] The Long Voyage Home (1940),[12] Arabian Nights (1942), Hard Boiled Mahoney (1947), Sirocco (1951),[11] Golden Girl (1951), World for Ransom (1954), Maracaibo (1958), Tank Commando (1959), and Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960).

[11] D'Antonio appeared in television programs through the 1960s, often cast as a Native American character in Westerns, as in Have Gun–Will Travel (1962, 1963),[13] Wagon Train (1964) and Cheyenne Autumn (1964), but she also had roles in The Thin Man (1959), Checkmate (1961), My Three Sons (1965),[14] and Family Affair (1969).

[17][18] "She offered Hollywood a pretty and generic otherness that could authenticate its fantasies of Singapore, Arabia, or Morocco," commented one film scholar.

[19] D'Antonio married Karl Gustav Verner Laand in San Francisco, California on December 16, 1944.