 In 1928 she sailed for Hollywood, where she played opposite John Barrymore in "Tempest" and "Eternal Love".She returned to Europe, and in the 1930s refused to follow the official line of the Nazis and was prosecuted for a monetary offense.After the war the British tribunal at Delmenhorst convicted her for minor offenses (among them travelling without permission) and she was imprisoned for three months at the women's prison in Vechta.