[1][2] Early in her career, Brand performed in Las Vegas, and in 1955 she sang and danced at Ciro's night club in California.

[3] In 1958, she acted in the B-film Giant from the Unknown, about a man who was frozen in suspended animation for 500 years and was freed by a lightning bolt and goes on a killing spree.

Brand portrayed "Indian Emily" in the 1959 episode of the same name on the syndicated television anthology series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews.

Emily, an Apache captive, adopts the white man's ways but flees when a young officer, Tom Easton (Burt Metcalfe), whom she loves, prepares to marry someone else.

[6] Brand and her husband George Schlatter were close friends with Kovacs and his wife, Edie Adams.