 It remains today the most popular and highly regarded film that Zinkeisen worked on.In 1938 she wrote "Designing for the Stage", a book regarded by Sue Harper, Professor of Film History, as an "influential innovation".According to Harper, Zinkeisen described how she "valued visual flair and 'fantastic treatment' above all", that she thought theatrical and film performances should be led by the mise en scène and that audiences were unconsciously able to "decode complex visual details".