She easily managed the transition to sound films, making a total of 28, and appeared in some of the very first, including United Artists's "Bulldog Drummond" (1929), "The Trial of Mary Dugan" (1929), the now-lost color musical "Gold Diggers of Broadway" (1929), and "New York Nights" (1930) with Norma Talmadge. She starred as a murderess in the melodrama "Murder by the Clock", as a self-sacrificing mother in "The Road to Reno" (1931), and as a chorus girl in "Wine, Women and Song" (1933). In 1932, her health began to fail but she appeared in "The Wiser Sex", "Those We Love", the film on the Russian Revolution, "Scarlet Dawn", "Mama Loves Papa" with Charlie Ruggles (1933), and the musical "Too Much Harmony" (1933). In early 1934, she appeared in "Riptide" with Norma Shearer. Her last film, "Frankie and Johnny", was released posthumously in 1936. Director George Cukor described Tashman as "a very diverting creature [...] outrageous and cheerful and goodhearted."