[1] Midgley's work on stage included portraying Mopsa in the Broadway production The Free Lance (1906).

[1] In 1914 alone, she had 27 film appearances, including The Sheriff of Bisbee, in which she starred with actress Mildred Harris, the future mother of Charlie Chaplin's first child.

From 1927 to 1929, her career almost completely halted compared to her previous years, with only five film appearances during this period, most notably with Buddy Roosevelt in The Cowboy Cavalier in 1928.

She did transition somewhat successfully to sound films, and appeared in the 1930 movie The Poor Millionaire, starring Richard Talmadge and Constance Howard.

Midgley was married to Cecil S. Frier at some point, and she died at the age of 52 on January 4, 1932, in Hollywood.