He offered Travis a screen test when she came to Pasadena, California, where the major league baseball team trained.

She returned to Chicago and school and the next winter, accepted a film studio offer in Palm Springs, California.

Travis made her screen debut in Stranded (1935),[2] a film which starred Kay Francis and George Brent.

The aviator gave her instructions in September 1935, including the film stars James Cagney and Pat O'Brien.

Also in 1936, she portrayed secretary Della Street to Perry Mason as played by Ricardo Cortez in The Case of the Black Cat.

[6] On April 14, 2008, Travis, age 93, died in a hospital of complications from a stroke she suffered weeks earlier.