[15] By 1910 the two sisters were working regularly in traveling vaudeville productions, as well as in the burgeoning New York movie industry, Gladys as an ingenue and Corinne as "fairies, babies, witches, and other funny little people.
Encouraged by her family, she studied for four years at the Art Students League of New York[18] In 1930 Corinne (now an advertising illustrator for a milliner and single), Gladys (now a sales manager for a department store and divorced), and their mother (listed in the census as a widow, employed as a stage costumer) were living together in Los Angeles,[19] where Corinne worked as a fashion illustrator and continued her art studies as a pupil of Theodore Lukits.
[21][22] She collaborated with her sister, Gladys, who was becoming established as a professional writer, and the two of them launched their careers in the field of children's books.
[25] Corinne illustrated Nursery Songs, one of the initial offering of twelve Little Golden Books, issued in 1942 (but not the cover painting, which was by Louise Alston).
She worked as Art Editor for the Ladies Home Journal, and was a prolific and influential advertising illustrator who helped create the iconic 'fifties "look."