Malone was in "One Sunday Afternoon" (1948) with Morgan and Janis Paige for director Raoul Walsh; this was a remake of "The Strawberry Blonde" (1941), with Malone playing the part played by Olivia de Havilland in the original. She was billed third in "Flaxy Martin" (1949) with Virginia Mayo and Zachary Scott, then played a good girl in a Western with Joel McCrea, "South of St Louis" (1949). McCrea and she were re-teamed in "Colorado Territory" (1949), a remake of "High Sierra" (1941), also for Walsh, her last film before she left the studio.