[9] He was a member of the George Marlow Dramatic Company from 1909[10] to 1913, and was best remembered as "Sammy Snozzle", in The Bad Girl of the Family,[8] but also appeared in Allan Hamilton's 1911 production of Beauty and the Barge.
[15] Carbasse was renamed "Louise Lovely" by the head of Universal Pictures, Carl Laemmle,[8] in late 1915[16] and became a considerable star with a great number of films to her credit, mostly for the studio of William Fox.
As part of her self-proclaimed campaign to reinvigorate the Australian film industry, Carbasse (or Louise Lovely as she was known by this time) instituted a "Day at the Studio", advertised as a screen test to find undiscovered talent.
[25] Back in Australia, Carbasse, or Louise Lovely as she continued to be named, was determined to be at the vanguard of a revitalised Australian film industry.
The writer Marie Bjelke-Petersen approached Carbasse, proposing she make a feature film of her just-published fourth novel Jewelled Nights, set in the osmiridium mining region of northwest Tasmania.
[26] On 20 February 1925 the company of "Louise Lovely Picture Productions Ltd" which included her "leading man" Arthur Styan and the "villain" Godfrey Cass, boarded the SS Oonah for Launceston to begin filming; Carbasse had a boy's haircut ready for the "on location" filming, as the plot revolved around a woman dressing as a boy to work at the mine.
The Welch-Carbasse marriage had deteriorated during their residence in America, and soon after their return to Australia, Welch, wishing to be free to meet other women, moved to a different hotel.