[1] She attended a Denver ballet school and studied the violin as a pupil of Hungarian violinist Leopold Auer.

That success led to a three-year contract with a syndicator of transcribed radio program to produce religious dramas.

She played opposite Boris Karloff in NBC radio adaptations of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Death Takes a Holiday.

During the 1940s, she was heard in The Adventures of Christopher Wells and as Shanghai Lil on Jungle Jim, plus roles on The Cisco Kid, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and The Fat Man.

On television, she appeared in Search for Tomorrow, Mr. District Attorney, Armstrong Circle Theatre, Omnibus,[8] Escape (1950) and Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (1970).