Raymond graduated from Northwestern University with a BA degree and worked as a press agent in Chicago.

[3] She signed a movie contract with MGM in 1941 and was cast in incidental roles for one year.

The she began freelancing, ultimately appearing in more than 40 films including Johnny Eager (1942) and as a slave girl in Arabian Nights (1942).

One of Raymond's more memorable roles may have been that of a good-hearted burlesque dancer Tanya Zakoyla in the film noir The Glass Wall (1953).

Raymond married nightclub owner Norman E. Heeb in Las Vegas, Nevada, on June 15, 1941.