 Her rise to fame occurred with the film adaptation ("El ángel desnudo") of the novel "Frau Elsie", by Arthur Schnitzler.Often billed as the first nude film in Argentina, in reality, the film showed only her bare back, which she claimed was not nude, but was covered with flesh-colored mesh.Zubarry won the 1946 Silver Condor Award of the Film Critics Association for Best New Actress for "El ángel desnudo".