Although the role had been sought by such established actresses as Gloria Swanson and Mary Pickford, Barrie personally chose Bronson to play the lead in the film adaptation of his work, which was released in 1924.

In 1925, she starred in another Barrie story, A Kiss for Cinderella, an artfully made film that failed at the box office.

It was Peter Pan, directed by a clever caricature of a wildly temperamental movie director, Herbert Brenon.

After exhaustive tests, Betty Bronson, a pretty and gifted girl in her middle teens, was given this famous role...

My rival was a fellow in his twenties, a newspaperman who was to become one of New York's most respected theater critics, Richard Watts, Jr.

...In any event, I was so smitten with Betty, I could think of little else, except when I could call on her, even though her overprotective mother was always just in the next room.It is known that Bronson kept all Fairbanks' letters and spoke of him fondly until her death.