- Started in radio, starring in a popular program, 'The Youth Show', in Sydney.
- After the success of her first movie 40,000 Horsemen (1940) she toured the world visiting army camps and entertaining the troops. She was given the nickname "The Red Cross Queen" and her charity work continued for the rest of her life. She was a founder of the charity organisation Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific (FSP) in 1963 with her husband Maurice Silverstein and their friend Father Stan Hosie, launched by supporters Sophia Loren and Peter Ustinov. The organisation was renamed Counterpart International in the early 1990s.
- In the early 1930s she appeared in the Australian radio programmes 'The Youth Show' and 'The Jack Davey Show', and made regular appearances throughout her early career as a singer with dance bands.
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