[2][3] Cleve danced ballet for 14 years, and studied under Per Aabel and Lowe Krohn.
She performed together with Sonja Henie at Centralteatret on spectacle, as well as at the National Theatre (Oslo) for the royals.
At the age of 21 she got the Ruud-scholarship for 4 years in a row, and studied singing in Vienna.
She was engaged for three years by the Nuremberg Opera, until the outbreak of 2nd world war.
Cleve received Ruudstipendium for singers over a period of four years, won a grant from the artists' compensation fund four times, and two times scholarship from Tono.