Her performance in a production of West Side Story there was seen by a talent scout for 20th Century Fox studios.

[1] Blye was a regular on the ABC-TV program Kodiak in the role of police radio dispatcher Maggie.

Among her first roles was that of defendant Betty Kaster in the 1965 Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Lover's Gamble."

She also starred in the 1969 classic film The Italian Job as Michael Caine's girlfriend Lorna, as well as Waterhole No.

Her obituary in the online version of The Telegraph pointed out: "By the end of the decade, however, Maggie Blye was no longer being considered for romantic roles.