[1] She drew the attention of Broadway producer Charles Dillingham who cast her in the supporting role of Gladiola in the 1915 C. M. S. McLellan musical revue Around the Map.

The couple had hoped the ceremony would be conducted by Newark, N.J. Mayor, Charles P. Gillen, but as he became unavailable, settled upon Police Judge Michael J. Quigley instead.

[10] She married stock broker William F. McGee a year or two later and soon became embroiled in a bucket shop scandal in which her husband's firm was accused of bilking some four thousand investors out of millions of dollars.

[11][12] On January 8, 1949, she wed John G. Loofburrow (1902–1964), a one-time actor from Ohio who went on to serve for many years as New York night editor for the Associated Press.

[15][16] During World War II she joined the American Red Cross and served for some time in the Allied Mediterranean Theatre of Operations.