 She retired to California but returned to the screen twice in 1935, first as George F. Marion's wife in the Zane Grey western "Rocky Mountain Mystery" (aka "The Fighting Westerner") starring Randolph Scott and then a small role in "Becky Sharp", starring Miriam Hopkins.She died in 1937 in Santa Monica, California of heart disease.She is buried in Woodland Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio in the family plot with her second husband, her son Dudley, and several other Dudley and Payne family members.