Born May 19, 1914, in Brooklyn, N.Y., Roberts became a Warner Bros. contract player in 1935. She made her first film the next year with Al Jolson in the musical The Singing Kid."
She starred as a female lumberjack in God's Country and the Woman" in 1937, replacing Bette Davis in the lead. She also appeared with Bogart and Pat O'Brien in China Clipper" in 1936 and with Errol Flynn and Joan Blondell in Perfect Specimen" in 1937.
After leaving Warner Bros. in 1940, she toured the country as a singer with the Dorsey Brothers band.