[6] During high school, she served as a pianist for the Bridgeport Symphony Orchestra.
[2] In the 1950s and 1960s, she appeared in As the World Turns, The Edge of Night, and The Secret Storm, all soap operas.
She debuted on Broadway in The Seven Year Itch (play) as the wife, replacing Neva Patterson.
Morley was a board member of both the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the Screen Actors Guild.
Under the name Rita Morley Harvey, she wrote a book, Those Wonderful, Terrible Years: George Heller and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (Southern Illinois University Press, 1996), which was “a history of the union’s struggle with blacklisting of suspected Communists in the 1950s.” [7] Morley married Kenneth Harvey, an actor, at Temple Beth Israel in West Hartford on November 24, 1957.