[7] She then toured for some weeks, appearing in cinemas to introduce a short documentary film titled Miss New Zealand in Movieland.

[8] On her return she stated that her first screen appearance had been a minor role in a movie called The Actress, which starred Norma Shearer.

[10] Her only credited role during this time was playing the hero's girlfriend in Chet Withey's The Bushranger, a Hollywood drama set in Australia in the early years of European settlement.

[11] She subsequently had dual roles as mother and daughter in a New Zealand silent film called The Bush Cinderella, directed by Rudall Hayward.

[12] She subsequently moved to Australia, where she married Auckland-born Robert Ivan Nicholson of Sydney on 18 October 1933.