She was called "the greatest little emotional actress on record" by Motion Picture Magazine.

She was nicknamed "Little Zoe, the Universal Baby", and would later fondly remember acting alongside Lon Chaney.

[1] When she was ten, her father decided she could not make more movies until she had finished schooling.

She married fellow dancer Ronald Foster Barlow in the early 1930s.

After being shown The Star Prince, in which she had played the title role at age eight, she exclaimed: "What a ham!