Using a cowgirl persona, she appealed to local TV audiences of several generations of children through American radio, Broadway stage, movies and as a recording artist for more than sixty years.

The first top-rated female disc jockey in the country, she worked as an announcer, writer and producer while also appearing on stage and in movies, establishing herself as a pioneer in the history of early broadcast television and radio in the United States.

Her parents, Charles and Bertha Beller, encouraged her to enter the world of show business, for which she exhibited both talent and ambition.

At the age of twelve, she and her sister Mildred, who were billed as the "Little Missouri Maids," made their debut on the CBS radio program "Brush Creek Follies".

[8] Her broadcast and entertainment career began with creation of the character of a blonde cowgirl who hosted an afternoon children's program for Philadelphia station WFIL-TV (now WPVI) from the 1950s to 1971.

She hosted a number of guest visitors including the Three Stooges and Colonel Sanders, plus local legends Dick Clark and Chief Halftown.

She continued to make public appearances near her home in Waterford Township in southern New Jersey in her senior years.

The first top-rated female disc jockey in the country, she also worked as an announcer, writer and producer while also appearing on stage and in movies.