She married writer and producer Leonard Stern in 1951, but this union proved short-lived.
Renaming her Laura Elliott, the studio cast her in a number of film noir thrillers, including Special Agent 1949; with and Paid in Full 1950; with and , and one of her meatiest roles came in Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train 1951; with Robert Walker in which she portrayed doomed estranged wife.