In 1936, Eva toured nationally with a theater company, worked as a model, and was cast in a few B-grade movie melodramas. In 1942, Eva experienced some economic stability when a company called "Candilejas" (sponsored by a soap manufacturer) hired her for a daily role in one of their radio dramas called "Muy Bien", which aired on "Radio El Mundo" (World Radio), the most important radio station in the country at that time. Later that year, she signed a five-year contract with "Radio Belgrano", which assured her a role in a popular historical-drama program called "Great Women of History", in which she played Elizabeth I of England, Sarah Bernhardt, and the last Tsarina of Russia. Eventually, Eva Duarte came to co-own the radio company. By 1943, Eva Duarte was earning five or six thousand pesos a month, making her one of the highest-paid radio actresses in the nation. Pablo Raccioppi, who jointly ran "Radio El Mundo" with Eva Duarte, is said to have not liked her, but to have noted that she was "thoroughly dependable". Eva also had a short-lived film career, but none of the films in which she appeared were hugely successful. In one of her last films, "La cabalgata del circo" ("The Circus Cavalcade"), Eva played a young country girl who rivaled an older woman, the movie's star, Libertad Lamarque.