Yale University student Jock Whitney took her to the Richman Club where vocalist Helen Morgan heard her singing and encouraged her to attend auditions being conducted by Florenz Ziegfeld.

In Ziegfeld's No Foolin (1926) she appeared with Edna Leedom and the Yacht Club Boys, plus a chorus line with Paulette Goddard, Susan Fleming, Clare Luce and Baby Vogt.

[2] As Broadway producers during the early 1930s, they co-produced Music in the Air, written by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II.

Fears purchased five Rolls-Royce autos and a $65,000 chinchilla coat, retaining only $300 in her bank account.

Although she had been married, Fears is described by those who knew her as having been bisexual or lesbian, primarily preferring the company of women in her private life.

[5] Fears built Fire Island Pines, New York's original Yacht Club.