Universal cast her in a variety of genres including film noir and musical comedy. She made a number of Westerns at the studio, including two she numbered among her favorite projects; "Men of Texas" with Robert Stack and Broderick Crawford and "Ride 'Em Cowboy" with Abbott and Costello (both 1942). She is remembered by fans of horror for her work in several pictures made in the 1940s. Her first horror film was "Black Friday" (1940) in which she played Boris Karloff's daughter. "House of Frankenstein" (1944) was the last horror picture she did at Universal.