 After her divorce from Robert, Lillian began working as a foreman at a knitting mill.After attending Los Angeles Junior College for one year, Billingsley traveled to Broadway, when "Straw Hat", a revue in which she was appearing, attracted enough attention to send it to New York City.When the show closed after five days, she took an apartment on 57th Street and went to work as a $60-a-week fashion model.