Both her mother and stepmother were descendants of 15th-century Hawaiian chief Liloa and distant relatives of Kamehameha I.

The following year she appeared in the serial Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island as a Polynesian princess.

Clark played roles in several B-pictures with Pacific Island settings, for instance Hawaii Calls (1938).

(1940) provided her with a substantial role as the "Queen of the Rock Tribe" appearing with Lon Chaney Jr.

Clark married U.S. Army Captain James Rawley and had a son, James Rawley Jr. After marriage, she retired from show business and went back to school, earning a degree from UCLA in 1965.