Wendy Toye CBE (1 May 1917 – 27 February 2010) was a British dancer, stage and film director and actress.
Beryl May Jessie ("Wendy") Toye was born in London. She initially worked as a dancer and choreographer both on stage and on film, collaborating with the likes of directors Jean Cocteau and Carol Reed. She directed the original production of Bless the Bride in 1947.
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.
She was attacked and robbed in her maisonette in Westminster on 27 November 1956. Two men stole jewellery and money.
On 6 January 1958, she appeared as Roy Plomley's Guest on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs. Her choices were wide-ranging, including Bach, Mahler and Lena Horne. She was the head of the jury at the 13th Berlin International Film Festival in 1963.
If Nathan won't do it
If Tom won't do it
And Jay won't do it
Then go for Siva's model pout instead
If Max didn't hide it
If Nathan didn't hide it
Then why can't I find it
All the guys have tried it on now
And looked wrong somehow
So I'm getting my pout ready
Getting my pout ready now
It's a band photo
We gotta get into a nice straight row
Hope you can't see the creases and they've ordered the pizzas
Being a heart-throb ain't easy you know
Guess what time we get up, get up now
Cause Max won't wash it
and Jay won't wipe it
Don't mean to drop it
But cleaning just drives us out
of our heads
When I'm handed pictures to sign and I'm trying to be patient
But girls all go berserk for their screaming adoration
Because they say it helps it's to maximize flirtation but I must get back to this shoot
This bit's slow mo, then we get back into a nice straight row
As our fame increases, schedules on press releases
And so our fans already know (pause) exactly where to go now
I wonder if I'll be the solo star, but I'm worried if I do depart
Then my place in the band will go
and it'll break up our nice straight row
row row row row row
We're all standing
slow mo slow mo slow mo
It's a band photo, we gotta get into a nice straight row
How you can't see the creases and they've ordered the pizzas
Being a heart-throb ain't easy you know