"[2] Brough made her stage debut on the same day and in the same production as Lillie Langtry: She Stoops to Conquer at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket.

[1] The Times singled out for mention her performances in Arnold Bennett's What the Public Wants (1909), F. Anstey's The Brass Bottle (1909), Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford (1913), Mr. Wu (1916), Lord and Lady Algy (1917), London Pride (1917), and The Young Person in Pink (1920).

[2] But The Manchester Guardian commented that popular fame came to her when nearly sixty, cast in the small role of Benita Mullet alongside Ralph Lynn, Tom Walls and Robertson Hare in Tons of Money in 1922.

[4] Brough appeared in more than 60 films, both silent and talkies, where she was best known for her comic characterisations, playing fearsome women in farces; some were Cockney; some were aristocratic; others were parvenu; some were sympathetic and some were monstrous, but all were formidable.

Films included her debut Beauty and the Barge (1914), also: A Sister to Assist 'Er (1922 silent version), His Grace Gives Notice (1924), Rookery Nook (1930) and Tons of Money (1930).