Her career got a shot in the arm when Norma married producer Nicholas Schenck in 1917. Talmadge's contract was bought up and her films released through United Artists for the rest of her career. And quite a career it was: a year never passed in the 1920s without a Constance Talmadge hit. She was a merry widow in "In Search of a Sinner" (1920), a repressed daughter in "Mama's Affair" (1921), a supposed Asian in "East is West" (1922, adapted from the Broadway hit), a dizzy wife in "Dulcy" (1923, also from a Broadway play), twins in "Her Sister from Paris" (1925, re-made as the Garbo vehicle "Two-Faced Woman").
Talmadge retired when talkies came in; her last film appearance was in "Venus" (1929). A real-life flapper, she married four times and dated nearly every man in Hollywood, almost becoming Mrs. Irving Thalberg in the mid-1920s. After her retirement, Talmadge married happily, volunteered as a nurse and died a wealthy Park Avenue matron in 1973.