[5] Terry's first movie was Love and Hisses in 1937 with Walter Winchell, at which time she was earning $400 per week.

Her best-known movie was Pistol Packin' Mama, based on the song of the same name with Robert Livingston.

On August 15, 1943, she appeared as guest female singer on The Bob Crosby Show on NBC radio.

[7] On June 20, 1942, Terry and test pilot John Martin eloped and were married in Las Vegas, Nevada.

A November 8, 1947, article in her hometown newspaper, The News-Palladium, reported, "She has given up her career as an actress and she and her husband and her four-year-old son by a previous marriage will make their home at St. Genevieve de Pierre Fonds, Quebec.