Toward the end of the 1904-05 season, Scheff became ill and was replaced by her understudy Ida Hawley to close out the remaining performances of Babette.

[4] Among the rôles she sang with the Fritzi Scheff Opera Company was that of Adele in Johann Strauss operatta Die Fledermaus including at the Belasco Theater in Washington, D.C., in 1912.

In 1915 Scheff appeared in her first film, Pretty Mrs. Smith, based on a Broadway play she starred in.

She appeared in night clubs,[citation needed] and died a month after being in Ralph Edwards' This Is Your Life.

[6] She married, first, Baron Fritz von Bardeleben a Prussian nobleman, then in 1908 John Fox, Jr. author of The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, and, in 1913, George Anderson, an actor.