Silent screen actress, a child performer in vaudeville from the age of seven, performing in a song and dance act with her brother. On the prompting of her friend
Lita Grey, she was chosen by
Charles Chaplin as his leading lady for
The Circus (1928). Retired from acting in 1934 to marry choreographer/director
Busby Berkeley. Died ten years later of a heart attack, aged just 36.