Having been a child singer, she began her adult career singing opera and in music hall, and worked as an actress, once performing with Sybil Thorndike.
[3] She formed the Theatre Royal Haymarket Company which included Ralph Richardson and Flora Robson.
[3] Her father-in-law Horace Watson was previously manager of the Theatre Royal, Haymarket.
[3] In 1969, she campaigned against the opening of theatres on Sundays, and was quoted in the House of Lords by Martin Peake, 2nd Viscount Ingleby on the matter, in 1971.
[4] She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 21 August 1971,[3] where her book choice consisted of volumes on astronomy and astrology, and her luxury item was forty yards of flowered chintz, a needle & cotton.