She danced and sang with the troupe until too old to continue; then at age 17, in December 1921, she went to San Francisco and joined Thelma Wolpa in amateur vaudeville comedy.

The same year, she was required by executives of the Fox Film studio to lose four pounds to secure a role in The New Orleans Frolic.

Marjorie appeared as a forward, and rather sarcastic, young woman among the usual group of suspects held waiting upon the conclusion of Charlie's investigation.

In 1933, White had a featured role in the Joseph Mankiewicz-scripted political satire Diplomaniacs starring the team of Wheeler and Woolsey.

Marjorie is Dolores, a femme fatale custom-ordered by the film's villain (she arrives wrapped in plastic from a chute in the wall) to seduce Willy (Bert Wheeler) and steal secret plans from him.

On August 20, 1935, White was a passenger in a car driven by Marlow M. Lovell on the Roosevelt Highway near the Bel Air Beach Club, in Santa Monica, California.