Along with Patience Cooper, Ruby Myers, and Sita Devi, she is credited as a "leading star" of the 1920s and 1930s who had more mass appeal than their male counterparts.

Suffering from financial constraints from early days of her life, she never really had any formal education as her parents brought her to Bombay, British India in search of work.

A news item, “Film Star's Story; Incidents at Hill Station,” which appeared in the Times of India on 15 September 1927, reported that she went to court, charging the director and chairman of the Shri Krishna Cinema Company with indecent assault.

During the shoot of Burkhawali at Matheran, she went to the superintendent of Police that cameraman Chaturbhai Patel and film director Kanjibhai Rathod had entered her hotel room and outraged her modesty.

A second judge reversed this judgment because he found the first magistrate to have been biased by the fact that Cardozo was an untutored woman of loose morals and bad association.

When film historian Bhagwan Das Garga wrote a column appealing for financial help for the actress who has turned pauper, she got him fired from his job.