Her last public appearance was in 1993 when the Screen Actors Guild honored its character members who had been issued SAG cards when SAG was founded sixty years earlier.
Once considered for the role of Belle Watling in "Gone With the Wind" by then-director George Cukor, but Cukor was replaced and the part went to actress Ona Munson.
She played the wife of Leon Errol in a long-running two-reeler series for RKO.
She won a beauty contest in Texas at age 13.