Her film career began in 1940, when she appeared first in Billy the Kid Outlawed and then as a society debutante, in the Kay Kyser musical You'll Find Out.

[citation needed] Currie was first married to Robert A. Hefner Jr., but that marriage ended in divorce on January 29, 1940.

[7] She married actor John Whitney (1918-1985) at the peak of her career, but the marriage ended in divorce.

[8] He retired from acting, and the two opened a successful antique import-export business in Beverly Hills, remaining together until his death in December 1996.

[citation needed] On May 17, 2010, Currie appeared at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills to introduce a screening of a restored print of the first chapter of the 1941 serial, Adventures of Captain Marvel.