In 1962, Laye made her first appearance in the "Carry On" films, replacing an unwell Joan Sims in "Carry On Cruising" at four days' notice. She returned as a Bond-girl parody in "Carry On Spying" (1964), a hospital patient who falls in love with Bernard Bresslaw in "Carry On Doctor" (1967), and as his permanently car-sick companion, on holiday with Sid James and Sims in "Carry On Camping" (1969), her fourth and last in the series. In 1965, she starred with her good friend Sheila Hancock in the sitcom "The Bed-Sit Girl" and appeared in the West End comedy "Say Who You Are".