Ula Love was raised in Paris, Tennessee, and graduated from Grove High School in 1921. (At Grove, her given name was spelled Eula.) She then attended UT for one year. Elocution classes at Grove and her good looks led her to leave college to pursue an acting career. She studied in Chicago and then went to Hollywood where she was discovered by Sid Grauman (Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.) Her first appearance in movies (uncredited) was in the 1934 film Stand Up and Cheer, followed by a small, uncredited part in the 1935 Redheads on Parade. In 1936 she appeared in her only Broadway part in the Ziegfeld Follies (January 30–May 9), with music by Vernon Duke and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. She played the part of a nymph in the Act I song “Time Marches On” and also played a Ziegfeld Follies Girl. Others in the cast included Bob Hope, Fanny Brice, and Eve Arden. She was the understudy for Eve Arden, to whom Bob Hope sang the song “I Can’t Get Started With You.”
According to Doughty, she was named Miss Ziegfeld Follies of 1936. In 1937 she appeared in her first credited movie, playing the part of Sylvia Parker in the western Springtime in the Rockies, starring Gene Autry. The same year she played the character Maizie in the film Youth on Parole. She also appeared in one other film in 1937, The Great Gambini (uncredited).
A hearing problem ended her show business career, and she married a Virginia oil distributor. After his death, she returned to UT for a class reunion and renewed a friendship with Knoxville Attorney Jack Doughty. Following Doughty’s death in 1987, she made a generous contribution to the Carousel Theatre for maintenance and repair, and indicated an additional, substantial bequest to the theatre. The Carousel was named for her on October 11, 1991, prior to the opening of The Heidi Chronicles at the theatre. The Heidi Chronicles was chosen to compete in the American College Theatre Festival for a chance to perform at Kennedy Center.