Biography
Joyce Irene Grenfell was an English diseuse, singer, actress and writer. She was known for the songs and monologues she wrote and performed, at first in revues and later in her solo shows. She never appeared as a stage actress, but had roles, mostly comic, in many films, including Miss Gossage in The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950) and Police Sergeant Ruby Gates in the St Trinian's series. She was a well-known broadcaster on radio and television. As a writer, she was the first radio critic for The Observer, contributed to Punch and published two volumes of memoirs.
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Awards & recognition
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire
Filmography10 titles
Man with a Million
The Pickwick Papers
Stage Fright
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Americanization of Emily
Genevieve
The Happiest Days of Your Life
The Belles of St Trinian's
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
The Lamp Still Burns