In 1936 she was working as a program girl at the Haymarket Theatre in London when her first play, "Where is Bohemia?", was produced.
Played the bloody child, the second apparition that tells Macbeth, no man born of a woman can do him harm, in James K. Hackett's London production of the Scottish play.
As an artist's model. She sat for English book illustrator Arthur Rackham (1867 -1939) for his children's book "Lonesome Miss Doll".