After she moved to New York City, Talton became a model for the
John Robert Powers agency. While working there she became known as "the
Omar Kiam girl" because she posed so often for that dress designer. Her stay at Warners was short, because she felt that she lacked training as an actress. She left Hollywood to work in stage plays, and only when she felt confident in her abilities did she return to motion pictures. She returned in a
Republic Pictures western in 1949 (as Alice Talton), and went on to a busy freelance career as a character actress. She appeared in the films
Ranger of Cherokee Strip,
In a Lonely Place,
The Great Jewel Robber,
Fourteen Hours,
Sally and Saint Anne,
Tangier Incident,
The Man Who Knew Too Much,
Cha-Cha-Cha Boom!,
The Deadly Mantis,
Romanoff and Juliet and ''
The Devil's Brigade'', among others. After Talton completed work on the film
In a Lonely Place (1950), she was injured at a resort. Being thrown from a horse resulted in two broken vertebrae. She feared that her career had ended, but she said, "after eight months flat on my back I was up and around again", and she resumed her career a few months later. She appeared in
Perry Mason as Eva Elliot in
The Case of the Long-Legged Models. The show originally aired on May 17, 1958. == Personal life and death ==