[citation needed] She attended Tamalpais High School[3] and was a sales girl in a department store in San Francisco before she began acting.

[citation needed] A May 4, 1927 review in the Appleton Post-Crescent complimented her skill as a performer in Love Makes 'Em Wild: Miss Phipps is one of the most charming actresses we have had the privilege of seeing in many a day.

[citation needed] Phipps starred in the very popular High School Hero, with leading man Nick Stuart, which opened in late 1927.

Two years later, she appeared on Broadway in the Kaufman and Hart comedy spoof of Hollywood, Once In A Lifetime (1930-1931), playing Susan Walker, the movie-struck ingenue.

[6] In 1941, she married New York musician Alfred Marion Harned[1] in Coyoacan, Mexico; they had two children, Maryanna and Robert, both born in Des Moines, Iowa; they divorced in 1956.

[1] In the summer of 2019, The Sally Phipps Archive was accepted into the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences in Hollywood, California.

The Archive, now known as the “Sally Phipps Papers”, consists of extensive pictorial material, including hundreds of scene stills from her films made at Fox, Essanay Niles, and Warner Brothers Vitaphone; from her two Broadway shows; publicity and pinup photos; and also 16mm prints of a couple of her films, lobby cards, posters, glass slides, theater programs, and heralds.