The silent film was produced by Germán Camus, directed by Luis G. Peredo[4] It would establish a formula that prevailed in Mexico until the 1940s,[2] the theme of the "noble prostitute", a girl typically living in urban slums, caught in the trap of the onset of modernity and industrialization.

While she was in the US, Sánchez won a contest organized by a local newspaper to promote her acting career and meet Hollywood personalities at publicity events at places like as Grauman's Chinese Theatre.

[2] 1921 brought her most acclaimed role, in En la hacienda, which premiered at Chapultepec Castle for President Álvaro Obregón.

[2] Throughout the 1930s she visited the film library of the Cine Club in Mexico City and lobbied for the creation of a functional and archival Cinematography Department of the Ministry of Education.

[8] Finally in 1942, she was successful and the Filmoteca Nacional (Mexican National Film Library) became a reality, when President Manuel Ávila Camacho not only authorized its creation[9] but gave her the responsibility for promotion of archival preservation.

[8] By 1947, the archive had been assigned to National Autonomous University of Mexico[10] and Sánchez began traveling throughout Latin America to urge film preservation.