After appearing in 25 features using her birth name, she became a fixture at Paramount Pictures officially as Ellen Drew from 1938 to 1944, where she appeared in as many as six films per year, including "Sing You Sinners" (1938) with Bing Crosby and "The Lady's from Kentucky" (1939) with George Raft. She moved to RKO in 1944. Among her leading men were Ronald Colman, William Holden, Basil Rathbone, Dick Powell, and Robert Preston (in "The Night of January 16th" and "Night Plane from Chungking").