[2][3] She traveled to the United States and made her first film with William S. Hart in the 1917 production Truthful Tulliver.

[4] As Abby Hope in The Heir of the Ages (1917), Byron was described by a critic as having substantial acting skills.

Her character was merely required to laugh like the silent film icon Mary Pickford.

[7] Byron met her first husband, Nicholas Dunaew, in New York City.

Dunaew, a Russian silent film actor, claimed to have met Byron in 1916 and brought her and her mother to Los Angeles, where the couple married in 1918.