Actress, radio performer and nightclub singer, winning on the Major Bowes Amateur Hour, a popular radio talent show during the mid-1930
Edward Bowes. Weston was chosen to replace
Ruby Keeler, frequent co-star opposite
Dick Powell, as Powell's co-star in
The Singing Marine (1937) because she was considered not only to have a better singing voice than Keeler but a physical resemblance to Keeler as well.