[3] After finishing high school in 1930,[4] she attended Dakota Wesleyan University for one year before moving to Los Angeles to seek additional musical training.

[5] Daw sang in operettas put on by local groups in Los Angeles, and a musician for one of the productions arranged for her to audition with director Victor Schertzinger.

She co-starred in the musical Western Panamint's Bad Man (1938) for another studio, but that was the end of her film career.

Her parts there ranged from a "noisy adolescent" in Fly Away Home to the title role in No, No, Nanette.

[7] After Daw's performing career ended, she became a teacher of piano and voice in Covina, California.