She has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design six times, winning for Anne of the Thousand Days (1969).
She married art director Roger K. Furse on 4 December 1936 at Chelsea Old Church.
[2] In 1970, she was awarded an Academy Award for Best Costume Design for Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) and had five other nominations for The Mudlark (1951), Becket (1964), The Lion in Winter (1968), Scrooge (1970) and Mary, Queen of Scots (1971).
[4] She was also posthumously awarded an Emmy in 1975 for Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design for "Love Among the Ruins" (ABC Theatre, 6 March 1975) (her only nomination).
[2] She remarried and remained with her second husband, the Scottish author, film and drama critic Stephen G. Watts (no relation to her parents),[2][6] until her death from breast cancer on 8 July 1974, in Kensington, London.