[1] She starred opposite John Wayne in the 1935 films Texas Terror and Rainbow Valley.

The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harris L. Browne,[2] she was born in Memphis, Tennessee,[3] and moved to St. Petersburg, Florida in 1923.

[2] In 1926, Browne was named Miss Florida in a beauty contest sponsored by the Tampa Times as judges selected her based on photographs of dozens of candidates.

[4] Before she made films, she worked as a model in New York and acted with a theatrical company in Chicago.

[3] While filming The Airmail Mystery in 1932, Browne met her future husband, actor James Flavin.