[2] After graduating from Ashland High School,[2] she attended the University of Oregon[3] where she was a member of Chi Omega.

[2] Keen on pursuing a movie career she relocated to Los Angeles, California, in 1927 and adopted the stage name Gloria Greer.

Her brief career included two speaking roles, one as Oliver Hardy's girlfriend in 1929's Men O' War[4] and another as a honeymooner in the 1930 RKO short Moonlight and Monkey Business, directed by Mark Sandrich.

They were visiting there when on May 28, 1931, Greer gave birth to a son, Carlos Noelle Jr (1931-1998).

[2] Her infant son was adopted by her sister, Vivian Dorothy Ling (née Greer, 1893–1966).