Boland's greatest success on the stage in the 1920s was the comedy The Cradle Snatchers[5] (1925–26), in which she, Edna May Oliver, and Margaret Dale, having been abandoned by their husbands, take on young lovers.

She had previously performed with Bogart in the 1923 comedy Meet the Wife at the Klaw Theatre as Gertrude Lennox.

Boland appeared in numerous films, including Ruggles of Red Gap, The Big Broadcast of 1936, Danger - Love at Work, Nothing but Trouble, and Julia Misbehaves.

[1] She was interred in the Great Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Vespers in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

[7] Boland was a practicing Roman Catholic[8] and a Republican who supported the campaign of Dwight Eisenhower during the 1952 presidential election.