Darmond was active onscreen from 1914 to 1927. She starred in the first Technicolor film, "The Gulf Between" (1917), with actor Niles Welch. The film premiered September 13 in Boston and September 21 at the Aeolian Hall in New York City. However, when the film went into limited release in early 1918 on a tour of eastern U. S. cities, it was a critical and commercial failure. The early Technicolor process ("System 1") was an additive color technique that required a special projector, and it suffered from "fringing" and "haloing" of colors.