 Ed Sikov sources Davis' first professional role to a 1929 production by the Provincetown Players of Virgil Geddes play "The Earth Between"; however, the production was postponed by a year.In 1929, Davis was chosen by Blanche Yurka to play Hedwig, the character she had seen Entwistle play in "The Wild Duck".After performing in Philadelphia, Washington, and Boston, she made her Broadway debut in 1929 in "Broken Dishes", and followed it with "Solid South".