[1] In 1954, a news item reported that Descher was "the only long-term contract child in Hollywood," having been signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story Babylon Revisited, she played Vicky, the daughter of Van Johnson and Elizabeth Taylor.

It also starred Macdonald Carey as Fred Gaily, the attorney who represented Kris Kringle, played by Thomas Mitchell.

In 1959, she appeared in the episode "Dark Morning" of CBS's anthology series, The DuPont Show with June Allyson.

[4] Her final television role was in 1966 when she appeared on Perry Mason as Sherry Lawler in "The Case of the Avenging Angel".