In spite of her ability to successfully tackle light comedies, tearful melodramas, and even musicals, and as well as garnering considerable praise by the critics and public – she received the most fan mail of any star in the early 1930s – she was released from her contract by the studio.
På trods af hendes evne til at beskæftige sig med lette komedier, tårevædet melodramaer, og selv musicals og blev rost af både kritikere og publikum, (hun fik flest fanbreve end nogen anden stjerne i begyndelsen af 1930'erne) blev hun frigivet af studiet.