[citation needed] Keener won a national beauty contest sponsored by the Chicago Tribune and used her success to begin a film career in Hollywood.

[citation needed] In 1923, Keener was selected as the prettiest woman in the motion picture capital, Hollywood.

As tribute to Miss Keener's beauty, her bust was sculpted by sculptor Finn Haaken Frolich for the Norse club.

She was active as an actress in the late 1920s with roles in movies like The Gingham Girl (1927), Whispering Sage (1927), The Silent Partner (1927), and Vanishing Hoofs (1926).

She acted in television with roles in episodes of Judge Roy Bean (1956) and Hopalong Cassidy (1954).