Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Na te angitu o Fitzgerald i kawe ia ki New York me te atamira Broadway i te 1938. I puta tana tuatahi ki Amerika i te taha o Orson Welles i te mahinga o te Mercury Theatre o "Heartbreak House". I kite te kaihanga Hollywood a Hal B. Wallis i a ia i roto i tenei mahi, ana ka hainahia e ia he kirimana ki a Warner Bros. E rua nga angitu nui i te tau 1939: he mahi i roto i te kiriata a Bette Davis "Dark Victory", me te
Kua whakaingoatia ki te Tohu Academy mo tana mahi tautoko hei Isabella Linton i te "Wuthering Heights" a William Wyler.