- Signed to a seven-year contract by Universal. She was set to star as Estella in Great Expectations (1934) before Jane Wyatt was cast. She seems to have appeared in the film in some other, uncredited capacity. She broke her contract and returned to London after four months to resume theater roles.
- Stepmother of prominent photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones Snowdon.
- Daughter of Sir Thomas and Lady Alice Coombe.
- She was reportedly considered to play the role of adult Em'ly in David Copperfield (1935) but the role went to Florine McKinney.
- Protegee of Leontine Sagan. She make her stage debut in a British stage version of Sagan's notorious film Mädchen in Uniform (1931), a production that also starred Joyce Bland, Lola Duncan, Barbara Everest, Katie Johnson, Cathleen Nesbitt, Isobel Scaife and Jean Stirling.
- Second wife of Ronald Armstrong-Jones (1899-1966). Their engagement was announced on April 21, 1936, and they were married in June of that same year.
- Her birth name is alternately given as Gwendoline Carol Akhurst Coombe and Gwendoline Carol Alice Coombe. Early in her career she was also known as Gwen Coombe.
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