milestones

Year
Milestone
1929 
Stage acting debut, "The Windmill Man"
1934 
Film debut, "The Girl in the Crowd"
 
Concentrated on her film work for a time after 1937
 
Began achieving success in leading roles in film in the early 1940s
1943 
Returned to the stage to star in "They Came to a City"
1945 
Played Amanda in a British revival of Noel Coward's "Private Lives"
1947 
Starred in one of her most important and best-remembered films, "It Always Rains on Sunday"; worked extensively with her soon-to-be husband, John McCallum
1956 
Last film for over 15 years, "Port of Escape"
 
Emigrated to Australia in the late 1950s with her husband John McCallum
1960 
First Australian stage work included "Winter Journey" and "The Constant Wife"
1961 
New York stage debut, "The Complaisant Lover"
1971 
Returned to features to play the leading role in the Australian-made "Nickel Queen", directed by John McCallum
1985 
Again returned to features for the TV-made "Time After Time", which also received theatrical distribution
1989 
First miniseries work to air on US TV, the PBS biopic, "Melba"
1994 
Returned to features again to act in "Country Life"
1996 
Had featured role in "Shine" as a mentor to the teenaged piano prodigy David Helfgott
2002 
Co-starred with her husband (playing brother and sister) in the London revival of "Lady Windermere's Fan"
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