She began her theatre career on Broadway at the Fulton Theatre playing a bridesmaid in the 1922 play Abie’s Irish Rose which broke a record for run of the play, finally closing at the Theatre Republic on October 1, 1927. She then played Sadie in A Lady in Love (1927) at the Lyceum Theatre. She played Lydia Webster in George M. Cohan’s 1927 farce Baby Cyclone at Henry Miller’s Theatre.

On December 21, 1930, Moorhead married director Alan Crosland in Yosemite National Park. She sued him for divorce on July 2, 1935. On March 28, 1942, in Maricopa, Arizona, she married millionaire Robert J. Dunham, the sixty-six year-old president of the Chicago Park District. He died in 1948. Moorhead’s third husband was Juan Garchitorena, an actor and former soccer player. They wed on July 27, 1957, in Beverly Hills.