Cika wannan jumla: Nasarar Fitzgerald ta kai ta zuwa New York da kuma Broadway mataki a 1938. Ta fara fitowa a Amurka tare da Orson Welles a cikin wasan kwaikwayon Mercury na "Heartbreak House". Mai shirya fina-finai na Hollywood Hal B. Wallis ya gan ta a cikin wannan samarwa kuma daga baya ya sanya hannu kan kwangilar ta tare da Warner Bros. Ta sami nasarori biyu masu mahimmanci a cikin 1939: rawar da ta taka a fim din Bette Davis "Dark Victory", da kuma
Nadin Academy Award don rawar da ta taka a matsayin Isabella Linton a cikin William Wyler's "Wuthering Heights".