Pavlow's roles include the Maltese girl Maria in "Malta Story" (1953), where she played alongside Alec Guinness; Joy, the girlfriend of Simon Sparrow, in "Doctor in the House" (1954); Thelma Bader, the wife of the Second World War fighter pilot Douglas Bader (played by fellow "Doctor in the House" cast member Kenneth More) in "Reach for the Sky" (1956); and the daughter of an irascible curmudgeon (played by fellow "Doctor in the House" cast member, James Robertson Justice) in "Murder, She Said" (1961).