A native of Southern California, she was born in Lompoc to Gerald F. and Jessie H. (Salter) Gadsden[citation needed] and is known to modern audiences as the wealthy, haughty other woman in the 1927 Clara Bow vehicle It.

[1] She married William Harry Dale about 1924.

[citation needed] She portrayed Lon Chaney's character's wife in Tod Browning's West of Zanzibar in 1928.

She died in the San Diego County city of San Marcos a week after her 86th birthday.

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