The first treasurer of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). She along with
Alden Gay were the two women among the 21 founding members of SAG.
Character actress, on stage from her early teens with the William Gleason stock company of Oakland, California. On screen from 1929, usually in hard-bitten or crabby roles. Often cast alongside her husband, the James Gleason.
Appeared in seventeen films with her husband, James Gleason.