 1944 saw Gillie starring in the whimsical propaganda drama "Tawny Pipit", while her last British film "Flight from Folly" (1945) marked a return to comedy.During the war, Gillie met American film director Jack Bernhard while he was on military service and stationed in Britain.The couple married on 5 May 1944, and after the end of the war went to live in the United States.