She began acting on the stage, eventually making it to Broadway, where she made her debut as Lucy in the short-lived play, Blue Monday in June, 1932.

[2] She made her first appearance in a feature film in 1940's Millionaire Playboy, starring Joe Penner, Linda Hayes, and Russ Brown.

[8] She had featured supporting roles in numerous films, among the most notable being: the lead of Kay Stevens in the 1941 Western mystery The Great Train Robbery;[9] as Ruby LaRue in A Night of Adventure (1944), starring Tom Conway;[10] as Belle Townley in the 1946 western, Gun Town, starring Kirby Grant;[11] in one of The Shadow films, The Missing Lady (1946), in the role of Rose Dawson;[12] and Grace in 1949's It's a Great Feeling, starring Doris Day, Jack Carson, and Dennis Morgan.

She appeared as a guest on dozens of other television shows, including Hopalong Cassidy (1952), The Abbott and Costello Show (1953), Mr. & Mrs. North (1953), The Gene Autry Show (1954), Treasury Men in Action (1954-5), Studio 57, The Millionaire (1955-6), Sneak Preview (1956), The Lone Ranger, several appearances on Schlitz Playhouse, Maverick (1958) with James Garner in the episode "The Lonesome Reunion", Perry Mason (1959) with Raymond Burr, several appearances on M Squad (1959) with Lee Marvin, Leave It to Beaver (1959), Make Room for Daddy (later known as The Danny Thomas Show - 1958 & 1960), several appearances on Alfred Hitchcock Presents from 1956 to 1961, 77 Sunset Strip (1962) with Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Hazel (1962-63) with Shirley Booth, several performances from 1960 to 1965 on Wagon Train, and The Munsters (1964).

[24] Her final acting performance was in a small role as a store clerk during the eighth season of the television series The Virginian in 1969.