Van Aalten's 1930 film "O Mädchen, mein Mädchen, wie lieb' ich Dich!" ("Oh Girlie, My Girlie, How I Love You!") was to be one of Germany's last silent films, but she successfully made the transition to talking pictures. The public didn't hold her Dutch accent against her and she (unlike a number of her contemporaries) continued to work. She was becoming well known now - film magazines featured articles about "das Mädchen aus Holland" (that girl from Holland), the huge publisher Ross Verlag (and others) issued postcards of her in various moviestar poses, and tobacco companies used her face on collectors' album cards.