[1] Trained at the Yale School of Drama, she won the Tony Award for Best Costume Design in 1948 for her work on Ruth Goetz's The Heiress.
[2] She made her Broadway debut designing costumes for Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize winning drama The Skin of Our Teeth in 1942.
Her other work on Broadway included Mae West's Catherine Was Great (1944), George S. Kaufman's Hollywood Pinafore, Mary Chase's The Next Half Hour (1945), and Michael Myerberg's Dear Judas (1948).
[3] In 1940 she designed costumes for a new staging of Giuseppe Verdi's Il trovatore for the Metropolitan Opera with director Herbert Graf.
The new production debuted on December 12, 1940, with Jussi Björling as Manrico, Norina Greco as Leonora, and Frank Valentino as the Count Di Luna with Ferrucio Calusio conducting.