[3] She represented Tony Hancock from 1954 onwards, helping guide him to his greatest public and critical successes on radio and television.
Clients included the British arm of Universal-International, later Universal, which hired her to promote Shelley Winters, Rock Hudson, and Piper Laurie among many, and the Coral Leisure Group.
Other entertainers, actors, musicians, writers, sports personalities and celebrities who engaged Hancock while she worked in the UK include Sophia Loren, Carlo Ponti, Julie Andrews, Theo Bikel, Topol, Billie Whitelaw, Jim Dale, Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall, bandleader Ted Heath, Ray Martin, Norrie Paramor, Eddie Calvert, Rose Brennan, Janie Marden, Gerry and the Pacemakers, racing driver Stirling Moss, Wimbledon champion Angela Buxton, and Australian golfer Peter Thomson.
In November 1988, she organised the official 80th birthday celebrations given in New York for British broadcaster Alistair Cooke by the BBC[6] for which she secured the musical services of James Galway and Leonard Bernstein and a personal video greeting from President Ronald Reagan.
[8][9] Hancock was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2002 Birthday Honours "for services to UK-US cultural understanding.