 Subsequently she starred in British dramas such as "The Outsider" opposite George Sanders, "Black Eyes", opposite Otto Kruger, "An Englishman's Home" with Edmund Gwenn and "This Was Paris" with Ann Dvorak.In mid 1939, she announced her engagement to Robert Gordon-Canning , a First World War veteran thirty years her senior.He had been active in far-right British politics, including the British Union of Fascists and The Link.