A dark-haired, fresh-faced, spunky actress, she debuted onscreen in My Sister Eileen (1942) when she was already 21, but nevertheless tended to play teenagers for the first few years of her career. "Mrs. Jeff Donnell" often played comic second leads, but gradually aged into matronly roles. In the '50s she appeared on comedian George Gobel's TV sitcom, portraying his wife Alice. Rarely onscreen after 1970, she played housekeeper Stella Fields for a few years in the TV soap opera General Hospital. She married and divorced actor Aldo Ray.