Wendy Toye initially worked as a dancer and choreographer both on stage and on film.
16 Facts About Wendy Toye
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Wendy Toye joined the Markova-Dolin Ballet Company as a soloist and was taken under the wing of Dame Ninette de Valois.
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Wendy Toye was collaborating with the likes of directors Jean Cocteau and Carol Reed.
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Wendy Toye first appeared on film as a dancer in Anthony Asquith's film Dance Pretty Lady in 1931.
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Wendy Toye directed the original production of the musical Bless the Bride in 1947.
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Wendy Toye directed films from the early 1950s until the early 1980s.
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Wendy Toye was an advisor to the Arts Council and lectured in Australia.
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Wendy Toye was attacked and robbed in her maisonette in Westminster on 27 November 1956.
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Wendy Toye's choices were wide-ranging, including Bach, Mahler and Lena Horne.
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Wendy Toye was the head of the jury at the 13th Berlin International Film Festival in 1963.
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Wendy Toye married Edward Selwyn Sharp in 1940; they divorced in 1950.
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Wendy Toye collaborated with the cartoonist and illustrator Ronald Searle on the stage play Wild Thyme, and then on two films: On The Twelfth Day and The King's Breakfast.
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Wendy Toye was awarded the Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977, and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1992 for services to the arts.
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Wendy Toye was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1991, when she was surprised by Michael Aspel at the Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham.
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Wendy Toye died on 27 February 2010 at Hillingdon Hospital, Greater London.
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Wendy Toye refused to write or authorise a biography during her lifetime, in spite of encouragement by her friends and family.