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Despite her early film success and offers from Hollywood, she returned to the stage full-time after 1945 and only occasionally accepted film roles.

With her return to film in the 1950s, she portrayed an abused colonial wife in Carol Reed's Outcast of the Islands ( 1952 ), but had already transitioned into mature, supporting roles with Sailor of the King ( 1953 ) and a memorable victim of the Mau Mau uprising in Something of Value ( 1957 ).

She won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1959 for the film Separate Tables ( 1958 ), as a lonely hotel manageress and mistress of Burt Lancaster.

She remained uncompromising in her indifference to film stardom, as evidenced by her surprising reaction to her Oscar win " never mind the honour, cold hard cash is what it means to me.

" She received a third Oscar nomination for her performance as the simple, unrefined, but dignified Lady Alice More, opposite Paul Scofield as Thomas More, in A Man for All Seasons ( 1966 ).

She reprised her London stage role in the southern gothic Toys in the Attic ( 1963 ), which earned her a Golden Globe nomination as the elder spinster sister in a film which also starred Dean Martin and Geraldine Page.