She settled on the East Coast in New York City with hopes of working on Broadway theater entertainment, making her debut in the chorus of the short lived Geoffrey O'Hara musical Rogues and Vagabonds in 1930.
Her appearances on Broadway were sporadic, including the roles of Daphne in Arthur Schwartz's Virginia (1937),[5] the Citizen of New Amsterdam in Knickerbocker Holiday (1938-1939), and a woman tourist in Key Largo (1939).
Carroll was married to guitarist Carl Kress (1907-1965); the couple had a son, Rick, who became a drummer, and went on to become a professor of harmony at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
The song was written by Buddy Kaye, Fred Wise, and Sidney Lippman for the series, of which 26 cartoons were produced by Famous Studios for Paramount Pictures between 1943 and 1948.
Carroll, with an ad-hoc group called the Swantones, backed Frank Sinatra on one 1950 single, "Life is So Peculiar".