[4] Gray returned to Los Angeles in early April 1942;[5] she headlined at Slapsy Maxie’s late that year.

[1] Gray was briefly signed with MGM, appearing in Kismet (1955), It's Always Fair Weather (1955) and The Opposite Sex (1956).

Portraying a singing and dancing stage actress, she appeared with Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall in the film Designing Woman (1957), as his former romantic interest.

Theatre critic Michael Phillips wrote that Gray's voice sounded like “a freight-train slathered in honey.”[11] In 1988 she appeared in the Doctor Who 25th anniversary story “Silver Nemesis,” playing an American tourist.

[12] An investment enterprise of Lofland’s would later be investigated, and on 27 June 1963 Gray appeared before the New York Supreme Court concerning the matter, though she testified that “she had no inkling of any possible fraud in the operation until she read about it in the newspapers.

"[13][14] Separately, Gray sued Lofland for $450,000 alleging “he assaulted her in April [1963] in a dispute that ended their engagement.

"[15] Lofland eventually “admitted masterminding a scheme of selling $3,000,000 of worthless oil leases to his high society friends” and was sentenced to 33-60 months imprisonment for grand larceny and perjury,[16] to be served concurrently with his 10-year sentencing in California for possessing stolen securities.

[17] On September 24, 1966, Gray married Andrew J. Crevolin, a California businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse owner who won the 1954 Kentucky Derby.