Editing Diana Wynyard (section)

==After World War II==
[[File:Mayerling 1957.jpg|thumb|260px|right|{{center|[[Raymond Massey]], Diana Wynyard (seated), [[Judith Evelyn]], [[Mel Ferrer]] and [[Audrey Hepburn]] in<br>''[[Mayerling (1957 film)|Mayerling]]'' (1957 TV production)}}]]
Her stage career flourished after the war, and as a [[William Shakespeare|Shakespearean]] leading lady at [[Stratford-upon-Avon|Stratford]], in London's [[West End theatre|West End]] and on tour in Australia, she had her pick of star parts. Between 1948 and 1952, she played [[Portia (Merchant of Venice)|Portia]], [[Gertrude (Hamlet)|Gertrude]], [[Lady Macbeth (Shakespeare)|Lady Macbeth]], [[The Taming of the Shrew|Katherine the shrew]], [[Desdemona (Othello)|Desdemona]], [[Henry VIII (play)|Katherine of Aragon]], Hermione in ''[[The Winter's Tale]]'', and [[Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing)|Beatrice]] to Gielgud's Benedick in ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]''. In this production, she succeeded her friend [[Peggy Ashcroft]]. Wynyard stumbled off the rostrum during the sleepwalking scene in ''[[Macbeth]]'' in 1948. She fell 15 feet, but was able to continue. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s she also had success in the works of several contemporary writers, including the British production of [[Tennessee Williams]]'s ''[[Camino Real (play)|Camino Real]]''.

She appeared in [[Alexander Korda]]'s version ''[[An Ideal Husband (1947 film)|An Ideal Husband]]'' (1947), based on the [[Oscar Wilde]] [[An Ideal Husband|play]], but her remaining film appearances were in supporting roles. Usually maternal, these included ''[[Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951 film)|Tom Brown's Schooldays]]'' (1951) and the secretive mother (of [[James Mason]]'s character) in ''[[Island in the Sun (film)|Island in the Sun]]'' (1957). She played [[Elisabeth of Bavaria|Empress Elisabeth of Austria]] in ''[[Mayerling (1957 TV film)|Mayerling]]'' (1957), an early American television film which starred [[Audrey Hepburn]]. In 1958 she appeared in the West End in ''[[A Touch of the Sun (play)|A Touch of the Sun]]'' by [[N.C. Hunter]].

She was appointed [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in 1953.<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/39732/supplements/12 Notice of CBE]</ref>