[7] After returning to the United States, Bacon appeared on Broadway in Earl Carroll's Vanities from August 1928 to February 1929.

[6] She initially performed a routine in which she stood nude and motionless onstage while lights "played over" her body.

At the time, indecent exposure laws prohibited dancers from moving while appearing nude onstage.

[9][10] On July 9, 1930, police raided the New Amsterdam Theatre and arrested Bacon, Earl Carroll and other cast members for "giving an indecent performance".

However, Earl Carroll stated that Bacon wore a "chiffon arrangement" during the performance and was not fully nude.

In August 1930, a grand jury decided against indicting Bacon, Carroll and her fellow cast members.

[13] Following her performance in Earl Carroll's Vanities, Bacon appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1931 from July to November 1931.

[18] While working in the show Temptations in the winter of 1936 at the Lake Theater in Chicago, Bacon cut her thighs when she fell through a glass drum on which she was posing nude.

"[22] In 1938, Bacon made her only acting film appearance in Prison Train, directed by Gordon Wiles, in which she played the role of 'Maxine'.

On April 23, 1939, she was arrested for a second time for disorderly conduct after staging a publicity stunt on Park Avenue in New York City.

In 1948, she was hired to headline a girl review, however on the last day of the performance she claimed she was owed $5,044 in back salary.

She claimed the owner tried to terrorize her and sued the carnival promoter for $55,444, accusing him of putting tacks on the stage on which she was dancing barefoot.

By the mid-1950s, she attempted to start a dance school in Indiana but that failed and she was found unconscious after reportedly overdosing on sleeping pills.

[28] On September 26, 1956, Bacon jumped out of her window at the Alan Hotel at 2004 Lincoln Park West in Chicago,[29] falling two stories before landing on the roof of an adjacent building.

The inventory of her possessions included clothing, one white metal ring, train ticket to Erie, Pennsylvania, and 85 cents.