She acted in D. W. Griffiths movie "Sorrows of Satan" in 1927 and when she made a contract with Universal she got leading roles in the movies "Midnight Rose" (1927) and "Buck Privates" (1927). Between these two movies she returned to Germany for a short time in order to shoot the movie "Charlotte etwas verrückt". During this stay happened a serious accident when Lya de Putti fell down from a window. The press interpreted it as an attempted suicide. But Lya de Putti recovered quick and returned to the USA.
