Her most notable screen role was in the silent Alfred Hitchcock thriller The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), opposite Ivor Novello.

In March 1929, June Tripp married John Alan Burns, 4th Baron Inverclyde and went to live at Castle Wemyss.

She appears as "Topsy" in Inverclyde's account of his travels in his steam yacht Beryl around the Mediterranean in the summer of 1929.

In August 1937 Tripp married Edward Hillman Jr, a Chicago department store heir who she had met in California some years prior: the couple wed in Cannes after chancing to meet again in Paris.

Tripp published a memoir entitled The Glass Ladder in 1960, in which she recounts with some vividness her Rebecca-esque life at Castle Wemyss with Inverclyde and his rather forbidding housekeeper, whom she compares to Judith Anderson's portrayal in the Hitchcock film, though both novel and film were released some years after her divorce.