She is remembered for several outstanding stage productions, including The Shanghai Gesture, The Lullaby, The Yellow Ticket and The Wanderer.

In this version, however, Miss Havisham was changed from a completely insane woman to an eccentric, who did not wear her wedding veil constantly, and who dies peacefully rather than as a result of suffering burns in a fire.

[3] Her grandfather was John "Pop" Reed, a longtime stagehand of the old Walnut Street Theatre, who donated his skull to be performed in future theatrical versions of Hamlet.

She was a stage star by then and her first movie was The Dancing Girl for Adolph Zukor's Famous Players studio built around her talents.

[5] She was interred in the same burial plot with her good friend, actress Blanche Yurka, in the Actors Fund of America section of Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York.