[1][2] She made her way to Hollywood via New York City by the mid-1930s to pursue a career in acting.
She had first worked as a showgirl for Bob Hope while in New York City, in the Palace Theater.
She received her first film role in 1936, having a minor part alongside James Stewart in Speed.
[5] On 21 May 1951 in Greenwich, Connecticut, she married her third husband, Prince Alexander zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst.
[6] He was a son of Austrian diplomat Prince Alfred of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst and the former Catharine Britton of Washington D.C. (a daughter of Alexander B.