Toye 's debut film short , '' The Stranger Left No Card '' ( 1952 ) , won the Best Fictional Short Film prize at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival , while her Christmas-themed short '' On the Twelfth Day … '' ( 1955 ) received an Oscar nomination in the Best Short Subject category . She directed films from the early 1950s until the early 1980s . Toye also was an advisor to the Arts Council and lectured in Australia
1953 Cannes Film Festival
1953 Cannes Film Festival
Wendy Toye