[4] Rice became an actress during the late 1920s and, after several Broadway roles, eventually made her way to Hollywood, where she acted in almost 50 films between 1934 and 1943.

Rice never became a major figure in movies, but she performed in a number of screen pairings with Robert Young.

[1] Her most widely seen performances were in Double Wedding (1937), in which she was billed third in the cast credits behind William Powell and Myrna Loy, Sweethearts (1938) with Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, and The Marx Brothers film At The Circus (1939).

[4] On February 23, 1974, at age 67, Rice died from lung cancer at Straub Clinic in Honolulu.

[4] At her request, there was no funeral, and her remains were cremated, with her ashes scattered over the waters near Waikiki Beach.