[citation needed] Starr started in plays in 1901 in an Albany stock company, in which Lionel Barrymore and Alison Skipworth were members.

She starred opposite Charles Richman as Nell Colfax in David Gray's Gallops at the Garrick Theatre in 1906.

She delivered a standout role as the wronged mother in Five Star Final (1931), an early talkie about newspaper corruption.

[citation needed] Starr's Broadway credits included The Ladies of the Corridor (1953), The Sacred Flame (1952), The Long Days (1951), The Young and Fair (1948), Claudia (1941), The Good (1938), Field of Ermine (1935), Lady Jane (1934), Moor Born (1934), The Lake (1933), Diplomacy (1928), Immoral Isabella?

[6] Starr's marriages to artist William Haskell Coffin and banker R. Golden Donaldson ended in divorce.