Career
After attending Mather College in Cleveland, Ohio, Carter headed to New York in an attempt to start an opera career. Although unsuccessful in opera, she was working on Broadway when she was spotted on stage by Darryl F. Zanuck, who signed her to a movie deal. After moving to Hollywood, she appeared in over 30 films beginning in 1941 for 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Columbia, and Radio-Keith-Orpheum. She appeared in the films and with Glenn Ford and with John Wayne.
After leaving Los Angeles, Carter returned to New York and found work in television in comedies and dramas and as hostess for the quiz show Feather Your Nest opposite Bud Collyer.
She died from a heart attack, on July 30, 1994, aged 80, in Durham, North Carolina.