After leaving school she joined Henry Duffy Players, a stock company and toured up and down the Pacific Coast.

[2] In 1933 she won a nationwide contest, "The Most Beautiful College Coed", which included a small Universal Pictures contract as a prize.

Of the thirteen girls selected that year to be "WAMPAS Baby Stars", only four would see any success as actresses.

[3] [4] (Per AFI database)[5] In 1937, she married Kenneth Higgins (1937–1973), a radio producer-writer.

In 2000 Lund took part in the documentary I Used to be in Pictures, which featured many actresses from the early years of Hollywood, which included Beverly Roberts, Muriel Evans and Miriam Seegar, in addition to Lund and others.