[1] Gombell was active in stock theater, starring with troupes in Albany, Atlanta, Cleveland, New Orleans, and Los Angeles.

[2] Her Broadway credits include Indiscretion (1928), The Great Power (1928), Ballyhoo (1926), Alloy (1924), Mr. Pitt (1923), Listening in (1922), On the Hiring Line (1919), The Indestructible Wife (1917), Six Months' Option (1917), and My Lady's Garter (1915).

[3] She had a successful stage career from 1912 as Winifred Lee before being signed by the Fox Film Corporation in the late 1920s.

[1]: 68  In 1922 she was married in secret to the aviator and press agent Ferdinand Eggena in Atlanta, Georgia.

[1]: 70 Gombell died in Santa Monica on April 14, 1973, and was buried in Loudon Park Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland.