I'd have liked to have leant against walls in thrillers.

He was also a journalist and the author of thriller novels publiCelia Johnsond in the late 1960s and early 1970s and a non fiction historical work August 1939. Johnson distanced herself from her acting career while her children were young preferring to devote her attention to her family. She accepted the role with misgivings because of her family responsibilities but was interested in the part writing to her husband "There is no getting away from the fact that it is a very good part and one which I should love to play.

Much of her later work was for television and Celia Johnson continued performing in theatre for the rest of her life. She began her stage acting career in 1928 and subsequently achieved success in West End and Broadway productions. Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson DBE (18 December 1908 – 25 April 1982) was an English actress.