[1][3] She travelled throughout post-war Europe, entertaining the troops with an ensemble of other actors, including Veda Ann Borg, Rose Hobart, and Ellen Corby.

Her BBC television play credits included I Killed the Count in 1948, and You Can't Take It with You in 1947, which co-starred Finlay Currie.

[3] Cooper returned to the United States during the 1950s, and appeared in a number of television roles, including the 1959 Twilight Zone episode "And When the Sky Was Opened", and Dragnet.

[1] Director Robert Aldrich cast Cooper in Kiss Me Deadly after seeing her turn as the character Anitra in a Los Angeles production of the play Peer Gynt.

[1] In the early 1970s, the original ending in which Velda and Mike view an explosion which destroyed the beach house had vanished.

She helped to organize groups of actors, writers and studio executives to participate in marches with Martin Luther King Jr. in Montgomery, Alabama, during the 1960s.