She made her film debut with "Dreiklang" (1938), it followed by the movie "Altes Herz geht auf Reise" (1938). The last mentioned movie met with disapproval by the National Socialists and was forbidden.
They summoned Helga Marold to Goebbels who supposed to put her into action as the representative German woman. But Helga Marold refused and he imposed a working prohibition on her. Therefore she worked at theaters in the next years.