 Thereafter she only made a handful of appearances on Broadway, with her last show being the original production of Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer's "Saratoga" in 1960.She spent several years in the early 1950s portraying Bloody Mary in the original run of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific", having succeeded Juanita Hall in the role.After 1935, her career shifted towards film, although she never left her stage roots.