She was featured in the Our Gang comedy shorts[4] and sometimes played the lead character as a child, co-starring with some of the great female stars of the day.

Their first film together, Mad About Music (1938), worked so well that they soon formed a sort of Shirley Temple/Jane Withers team in a couple of other movie confections for Universal.

By her mid-twenties she had left motion pictures and turned to television, co-hosting Hour Glass,[5] the first U.S. network variety show in 1946-47.

In an era when "... it was a social 'taboo' for a pregnant woman to display herself in public," Parrish was forced to leave Hour Glass as a result of her pregnancy.

[1] One notable TV role was that of Geraldine Rutherford in the first season of the American television situation comedy Leave It to Beaver.