[4] In July 1945 she scored a personal success at the Embassy Theatre in London's Swiss Cottage, playing the sadistic landlady Mrs Voray in Joan Temple's No Room at the Inn.

A few years later she played a similar role, Mrs Allistair, in the stage and screen versions of Sylvia Rayman's Women of Twilight (1952).

"[7] In July 1955, back at Northampton, she played the role she later listed as her favourite in Who's Who in the Theatre – Marguerite Gautier in The Lady of the Camellias.

(1965) as Boris Karloff's wife, and two featuring Ray Harryhausen creature effects: The Valley of Gwangi (1969) and Clash of the Titans (1981).

Summarising her film career, David Quinlan wrote that she "created some memorably grim portraits ... fewer than one would have liked, but she was really too ferocious for supporting roles.