She did episodes of several different television shows, and an unbilled song-and-dance number with Dean Martin in Artists and Models (1955) (which also featured fellow mouseketeer Nancy Abbate), just before being selected for the Mickey Mouse Club.

[citation needed] Contrary to the impression given by Disney publicity, many of the Mickey Mouse Club cast had some prior experience in films and television.

She briefly interrupted her education in May 1959 for a short performing tour of Australia with the Mouseketeers, then graduated from college in 1963 with degrees in mathematics and secretarial science.

[citation needed] In 1964, Baird married singer Dalton Lee Thomas, and, with a male friend of his, worked up a nightclub act called "Two Cats and a Mouse", which faded out, along with the marriage, by 1969.

[citation needed] In 1980, Baird, along with the other Mouseketeers, did a television special for The Wonderful World of Disney, reprising her "tap dancing while jumping rope" routine.