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Joyce Grenfell 1910 - 1979

M. Reggie Grenfell

Joyce is particularly remembered for her wonderful monologues and as a raconteur
Peformed tirelessly for the Troops during the War

Author of many books :- "In Pleasant Places" 1979.
"Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure". New York: St. Martin's Press, 1976.
"Darling Ma: Letters to Her Mother, 1932-1944". Edited by James Roose-Evans. 1988.
"In Pleasant Places" 1979
"Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure" 1976
"Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure" 1976
Joyce Grenfell & Katharine Moore "An Invisible Friendship: An Exchange of Letters 1957-1979" 1981
"Stately as a Galleon" 1978
"The Time of My Life: Entertaining the Troops" 1989

Year Theatre Play Character TV Character Film Character
1939 Little Theatre The Little Revue ..... .. ..... A Letter from Home American Mother
1941 New Theatre, Oxford Diversion - Revue ..... .. ..... A Letter from Home American Mother
1941 Wyndam's Theatre Diversion No 2 - Revue ..... .. ..... A Letter from Home American Mother
1943 Ambassadors Theatre Light and Shade ..... .. ..... The Lamp Still Burns Dr. Barrett
1943 .. .. ..... .. ..... The Demi-Paradise Sybil Paulson
1945 Piccadilly Theatre Sigh No More ..... .. ..... .. ..
1946 Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, Variety - Poetry Recitals ..... .. ..... .. ..
1947 Lyric Theatre Tuppence Coloured ..... .. ..... While the Sun Shines Daphne
1947 The McLellan Galleries, Glasgow Recital of Poetry and Music ..... .. ..... While the Sun Shines Daphne
1949 .. .. ..... .. ..... Poet's Pub Miss Horsefell-Hughes
1949 .. .. ..... .. ..... Alice in Wonderland Ugly Duchess/Dormouse
1949 .. .. ..... .. ..... A Run for Your Money Mrs Pargiter
1950 .. .. ..... .. ..... Stage Fright Lovely Ducks
1950 .. .. ..... .. ..... The Happiest Days of Your Life Miss Gossage
1951 .. .. ..... .. ..... The Galloping Major Maggie the Waitress
1951 .. .. ..... .. ..... Laughter in Paradise Elizabeth Robson
1951 .. .. ..... .. ..... The Magic Box Mrs. Claire
1952 St Martins Theatre Penny Plain ..... .. ..... The Pickwick Papers Mrs. Leo Hunter
1953 .. .. ..... .. ..... Genevieve Hotel proprietress
1953 .. .. ..... .. ..... The Million Pound Note Duchess of Cromarty
1954 St. Martins Theatre / Fortune Theatre Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure.. ..... .. ..... The Belles of St. Trinian's Policewoman Ruby Gates
1954 .. .. ..... .. ..... Forbidden Cargo Lady Flavia Queensway
1957 Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith Joyce Grenfell - Miscellany ..... .. ..... The Good Companions Lady Parlitt
1957 .. .. ..... .. ..... Blue Murder at St. Trinian's Sergeant Ruby Gates
1958 .. .. ..... .. ..... Happy Is the Bride Aunt Florence
1960 Tour Joyce Grenfell - Monologues and Songs ..... .. ..... The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's Sergeant Ruby Gates
1963 .. .. ..... .. ..... The Old Dark House Agatha Femm
1964 .. .. ..... .. ..... The Americanization of Emily Mrs. Barham
1964 .. .. ..... .. ..... The Yellow Rolls-Royce Hortense Astor
1967 .. .. ..... Face the Music Panellist .... ....
1968 - 1969 .. .. ..... Jackanory - Various Storyteller .. ..
1972 Theatre Royal, Haymarket A Celebration of Sybil Thorndike's 90th birthday ..... .. ..... .. ..
1976 .. .. ..... Parkinson Herself .. ..


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