Days before she was set to return to Cebu after splitting with her boyfriend, she, together with cousin Luz and a photographer friend did the rounds of the Big Three studios - Premiere, Sampaguita and LVN. At LVN, Art Dimayuga, the public relations person of LVN at that time, and Ate Maring, LVN's wardrobe mistress and a relative of LVN owner
Narcisa de Leon, offered for a screen test to her. She landed a role in
Malvarosa (1958), replacing the meanie
Rosa Rosal who was pregnant at that time.