She gave a well-received performance in the dramatic film "All the King's Men" (1949), which went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, and co-starred with Dan Dailey in "The Pride of St. Louis" (1952), about major-league baseball pitcher Jerome "Dizzy" Dean. She appeared in the James Stewart drama "Thunder Bay" in 1953 and then the Martin and Lewis comedy "3 Ring Circus" (1954). Her film career petered out by the end of the 1950s, but she continued working frequently in television, most notably as "Babs Wooten" on the 1960–61 ABC sitcom, "Guestward, Ho!".