In the early time of the talkies she appeared in her last movies.
Upon the rise of the Nazis in 1933, Boothby left Berlin and settled in France.
As a young adult writer, Valerie Boothby published stories like The Cat Captain: A Fantastic Tale and Growl and His Gang, or: Dogs Take Over a Town in the 1950s.
She lived in Cairo, Egypt for 15 years before returning to Hamburg in 1970, where she died on 14 April 1982.
She was the oldest of three daughters and was of German-Jewish ancestry.