Novak's last starring role was opposite Richard Dix in the Technicolor production "Redskin" (1929). The movie was also supposed to be with sound but there was a contract dispute involving this being Dix's final film with Paramount Pictures, so it was shot as a silent film. Novak's voice was good but she made only a handful of pictures following the advent of sound. One was a World War II era epic entitled "The Yanks Are Coming" featuring Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom. She also appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's "Foreign Correspondent" in 1940, having met him previously in the 1920s when making "The Prude's Fall" (1925).