 In 1934, Robson played the Empress Elizabeth in Alexander Korda's "Catherine the Great" (1934).She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Angelique Buiton, a servant, in "Saratoga Trunk" (1945).The same year, audiences in the U.K. and the U.S. watched her hypnotic performance as Ftatateeta, the nursemaid and royal confidante and murderess-upon-command to Vivien Leigh's Queen Cleopatra in the screen adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra" (1945).