Her first employment as a junior salesgirl at department store David Jones in Sydney was, in her own words, "a dismal and unqualified failure.

Making her way overland to Paris, she was hired by French couturier, Jean Patou, first as a general "dog's body", later working her way up to be a leading mannequin.

[5] She returned to Australia for Christmas 1935, and won a supporting role in Miles Mander's film The Flying Doctor, made in early 1936.

Kate Dunn claims that Vyner first saw future husband, British actor and playwright Hugh Williams on stage when he toured Australia in the late 1920s.

During the war, Vyner made considerable effort to maintain a good relationship with Williams' first wife, Gwynne Whitby and share in the upbringing of their two daughters, Loo and Prue.