She acted in Reginald Arkell's musical, "Gay Deceivers," at the Streatham Hill Theatre in Streatham Hill, London, England with Charlotte Greenwood, Clifford Mollison, Debroy Somers and His Band were in the cast.
American-born leading lady and singer of Irish and German ancestry, a former Ziegfeld girl. She acted in films on both sides of the Atlantic, but was more successful in British operatic musicals. Often cast in voluble roles. As her screen career began to peter out, she concentrated on performing in regional repertory theatres in the U.S. and Canada.