A pleasant gamin face, a charming French accent, and a relationship with Stan Laurel were the main ingredients in the screen career of Alice Ardell. In American films from at least 1925, when she appeared in comedy two-reelers with Chester Conklin, Ardell spent most of her time in the 1930s playing French maids. Laurel cast her as Fred Scott's leading lady in Songs and Bullets (1938), on which the veteran comedian is listed as the executive producer. It proved Ardell's final film.