[2] An early work of Cosby's that was turned into a stage musical comedy in 1926 was titled Miss Happiness, and later renamed Open Your Arms.

Her success on Broadway had multiple Hollywood studios reach out to her for film scripts, but she decided to remain working on theater pieces instead.

[8] On January 1, 1939, Cosby had moved into a new remote home in Beverly Hills, California to work on completing a play script.

From that point, she turned her hospital room into an impromptu office and began writing radio show scripts, sketches, articles, and assisted actresses she knew to get job offers.

[11] She was pronounced fully recovered after three and a half years, whereupon she immediately signed up for three different screen writing contracts for upcoming films.

[12] When her only surviving relative, her brother Richard Crosby, a magician and band leader passed away, he left her all his magic and books.