As a child she worked in her parents' vaudeville act, going on to work on the legitimate stage. In her teens she became a very successful model; her photographs were used in ads for several products, and artist Henry Oliver declared her to be "the Golden Girl." In 1924 she debuted onscreen, appearing in some three dozen films over the next twelve years; she often played wholesome, vivacious ingenues. In 1936 she retired from the screen.