 In 1941 she starred in John Van Druten's play "Old Acquaintance" in the West Wend.Pavlow's film roles include Maria, the young Maltese woman, in "Malta Story" (1953), with Alec Guinness; Joy, the girlfriend of Simon Sparrow, in "Doctor in the House" (1954) and Thelma Bader, the wife of the fighter pilot Douglas Bader (played by Kenneth More) in "Reach for the Sky" (1956).She co-starred on stage with Derek Farr in Odd Man In in 1957 and a Kenneth Horne comedy, Wolf's Clothing, in 1959.