She attended Cornell College, and upon receiving a fine arts degree she joined the Tony Sarg Marionette Company in 1927.
[2] At the start of World War II, the couple stopped puppeteering, and Rose took a job working as a nurse with the American Red Cross.
In 1948, they put on a TV adaption of A Christmas Carol, Scrooge!, which was the first full-length marionette production performed live on national television.
The couple continued working, creating puppets for television films including Treasure Island, Rip van Winkle and Aladdin.
The couple created and produced over fifteen marionette productions as well as many other films, commercials, and projects.