 While in Rome, she wrote a screenplay entitled "The Eternal City" (1923), based on the Hall Caine novel, directed by her husband George Fitzmaurice, and released by the Samuel Goldwyn Company.The film enlisted the assistance of the Fascists, and of Mussolini himself, with the help of the American ambassador in Rome.The film included a scene in which Mussolini appeared writing a letter and summoning a man to post it.