[3] In 1920, she moved to Los Angeles to cover entertainment for the publication after her co-worker, Margaret Ellinger, quit to become a scenarist for actress Bessie Love.

[5][6] One of her first screenplays was the 1925 adaptation of Alice Duer Miller's Saturday Evening Post story "Are Parents People?

[9] In 1926, she was charged by Allan Dwan to do an uncredited re-titling and re-editing of his film Summer Bachelors, and at this time became more interested in the idea of editing.

By 1932, she had returned to working as a newspaper columnist, writing about the state of the film industry for publications like The Los Angeles Times.

She successfully sued her former physician and was awarded a hefty settlement after a jury agreed that her doctor's misdiagnosis had caused her permanent weakness in one of her legs.