 After nine years of marriage, she and her husband divorced, and Kyra moved to Los Angeles, where she became a contestant on Groucho Marx’s show "You Bet Your Life".In 1955 she appeared on the show "Big Surprise", but failed to win the $100,000 jackpot.She was offered a contract by a publisher to write her autobiography, and in 1959, "Kyra", her first book, was published by Prentice-Hall.