In 1897 she made a movie, La Petite Adelaide, for American Mutoscope Company.
However, within a year Lloyd was arrested for stealing and pawning her clothes and jewelry, and the pair divorced.
Adelaide performed for theater operators including B. F. Keith, Lee Shubert and Oscar Hammerstein.
Their act mixed genres: it was "operatic, ballet, and stage dancing, dashed through with the paprika of the Cakewalk and the Tango".
The pair opened a dance studio in Brooklyn and married in 1913, touring together in an 8,000 mile honeymoon across the United States.