She began on Broadway as a chorus girl in the Follies of 1907, the first of Florenz Ziegfeld\'s annual revues. By the late 1920s, she was playing leads and featured roles, most notably in Fifty Million Frenchmen. In the early 1930s, she starred in the revues The Band Wagon and As Thousands Cheer. Her film roles included her stage success made into a film: Fifty Million Frenchmen, the Astaire-Rogers movies Top Hat and Swing Time. She did leading roles in a few B movies, such as Murder on a Bridle Path.\n', 'The wife of actor Lester Crawford (they appear together in the 1931 7-minute comedy short The Spirits of 76th Street), they were the parents of Academy Award-winning actor Broderick Crawford.\n', 'Broderick\'s last appearance on film was with Deanna Durbin in the comedy "Because of Him" (1946).\n', '

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