She made only one film in the 1940s, Dagli Appennini alle Ande (1943). During this time, she moved to Algeria, and then Martinique, where she worked in propaganda radio.
She made her German film debut in 1929 in Father and Son, directed by Géza von Bolváry.
Raymonde Louise Marcelle Toully was born on 3 March 1905 at Mortagne-au-Perche in Normandy. Her father was a hairdresser, whilst her mother was a painter.
When she was still an infant, the family moved to Rouen, where Toully studied at the Lycée Jeanne d'Arc.