Botschafter in Moskau
She moved into film, helping to meet Hollywood's demand for exotic foreign women for war films and films noir. Her 1942 debut was playing Catherine de' Medici in the 1942 short "Nostradamus and the Queen". Her feature film debut was in "Mission to Moscow" (1943). She continued in 1944 with "Days of Glory", opposite Gregory Peck, and later that year, "Lady on a Train".