[1] When The Teng Chun signed Mas Sardi to handle music for his company, Java Industrial Film, Hadidjah joined him.

Her debut was in Roesia si Pengkor (Secret of the Clubfoot; 1939),[2] in which she portrayed a young woman who was protected against an unwanted suitor by her lover and her father.

[3] After Roekiah and Rd Mochtar of Tan's Film became the colony's first on-screen couple, appearing in box-office hits such as Fatima (1938), Java Industrial Film decided to pair Hadidjah with Moh Mochtar, a football player skilled at silat, and cast them in romantic roles.

[4][5] In their first film together, Alang-Alang (Grass; 1939), Hadidjah portrayed a villager named Surati who is kidnapped by a spurned suitor and shipwrecked on a jungle island.

[9] In 1941 the pair appeared in another three films: Srigala Item (Black Wolf), Si Gomar, and Singa Laoet.