As a high school student, she sang with bands, including the one led by Eddy Duchin.
Impresario Billy Rose heard her audition for Goodman and booked the combination for the Let's Dance radio program.
[1] In either 1936 or 1937,[citation needed] Ward married Albert Marx, who in 1938 arranged for Goodman's Carnegie Hall concert to be recorded for her as a souvenir.
[3] After her marriage to Marx ended, Ward later married the audio engineer William Savory.
In addition to Marx and Savory, Ward was married to Daniel Murphy and Walter Newton.