[4][5] As an actress, Pates[6] was best known for "dainty, girlish" roles that focused on her "bewitching prettiness" and adventurous nature.

[7] Beatty was not an actor, but he was the chief test pilot and instructor at the United States Army Aviation School.

[8] She explained about her work: "The necessary qualifications for a successful photoplayer are that you must photograph well, and be able to express facially the idea you want to convey to the audience.

"[7] In For Mayor – Bess Smith (1913), Pates played a woman running for political office, who instead accepts her opponent's marriage proposal.

[10][11] She and her husband had a stock company, the Grew-Pates Players, performing The Gates of America,[12] Electrocuted at 5 A. M.,[13] Tess of the Storm Country, The Lure of the City, The End of the Trail, After Five, The Prince Chap, and a stage version of The Perils of Pauline,[14] in Boston and elsewhere, in 1914 and 1915.