In her third movie she played her first title role ("Man braucht kein Geld" or "No Money Needed"). The movie Ecstasy was scandal at that time because she was bathing naked and runs through a wood also naked. When she worked with the famous director Max Reinhard in Berlin, he said, that she was the most beautiful woman in Europe. In 1937 she signed a contract with MGM in London and went to the USA, where she spent the rest of her life. She became a US citizen in 1953. She died in Altamonte Springs, Florida.