Career
She made her screen debut in the 1929 silent film High Treason and first appeared on the West End stage on 5 December 1930 in the André Charlot production of Wonder Bar at the Savoy Theatre. In 1935 she starred with Conrad Veidt in the Gaumont British film The Passing of the Third Floor Back. Other film co-stars included George Arliss (His Lordship, 1936), John Mills (The Green Cockatoo, 1937), Gordon Harker (The Return of the Frog, 1938) and Trevor Howard (They Made Maine a Fugitive, 1947).
At London"s Lyric Theatre in 1936 she appeared with Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson in JB Priestley"s short-lived play Bees on the Boat Deck.
Other West End credits included Yes and Number (1937), They Walk Alone (1939) and Other People"s Houses (1941). Her single Broadway appearance was in Cedric Hardwicke"s production of Priestley"s An Inspector Calls, which ran at the Booth Theatre from October 1947 to January 1948.
In 1951-1952 she starred in the London production of Sylvia Rayman"s Women of Twilight, playing the central role nearly 450 times and reprising her performance in the subsequent film version. She made her last screen appearance as an interviewee in the British Broadcasting Corporation documentary Britain"s Missing Movie Heritage, broadcast on 30 September 1992, 11 months before her death.