[citation needed] Following a throat operation that severely impacted her vocal production, effectively ending any hopes of realizing her dream of an operatic career, Clark shifted her focus to acting,[11] eventually studying with Theodora Ursula Irving,[12] a New York-based teacher and fellow faculty member at Dickson's Hollywood Community Theater.
[13] Borrowing her mother's first name—both the formal and informal version—to arrive at the stage name Bridgetta, Clark made her film debut in 1921.
In the spring term, however, she was granted a leave of absence when she had the opportunity to make what would prove to be uncredited appearances in Rex Ingram's Scaramouche and Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments.
[14][4] Following her final screen appearance, in the 1926 drama The Greater Glory (based on Edith O'Shaughnessy's historical novel The Viennese Medley), Clark continued in a teaching capacity at least as late as the fall of 1931, when—as Bridget Clark Lobanoff—she supervised 200 students of John H. Francis Polytechnic High School in a pageant commemorating the 50th anniversary of the YWCA's Girl Reserves.
[15][16] On October 3, 1926, Clark commemorated the 57th anniversary of her parents' wedding by becoming the wife of Russian-American electrical engineer Paul Earl Lobanoff.