 After the Second World War, demonstrating her range, she appeared in "Holiday Camp" (1947), the first of a series of films which featured the very ordinary Huggett family; as Sister Philippa in "Black Narcissus" (1947); as a magistrate in "Good-Time Girl" (1948); as a prospective Labour MP in "Frieda" (1947); and in the costume melodrama "Saraband for Dead Lovers" (1948).Her other film roles included the Empress Dowager Cixi in "55 Days at Peking" (1963), Miss Milchrest in "Murder at the Gallop" (1963), the Queen of Hearts in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1972), and Livia in the aborted "I, Claudius" in 1937.She struggled to find a footing in the theatre after she graduated from RADA with a bronze medal since she lacked the conventional good looks which were then an absolute requisite for actresses in dramatic roles.