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Joyce Grenfell

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Also known as Joyce Irene Phipps, Joyce Irene Grenfell, Joyce (Irene) Grenfell

British comedian, singer, actress (1910-1979)

Person · Open Library

Born
1910
Died
1979
Works
27

Top works

  • Great humorous stories
  • Joyce by herself and her friends
  • Stately as a Galleon
  • Joyce Grenfell X10 S/W Whs
  • Joyce Grenfell at home

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
GB
Active from
1910-02-10
Active to
1979-11-30

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,770
Total plays
8,049

Tags

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Joyce Irene Grenfell, OBE (née Phipps; 10 February 1910 – 30 November 1979) was an English film and television actress, comedienne and singer-songwriter. Born in London, she was the daughter of architect Paul Phipps (the grandson of Charles Paul Phipps and a second cousin of Ruth Draper) and an eccentric American mother, Nora Langhorne, the daughter of Chiswell Langhorne, an American railroad millionaire. Nancy Astor, neé Nancy Witcher Langhorne, was her mother's sister. <a href="https://www.la

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Quotes

  • Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor,Doing the military two-step, as in the days of yore.
  • They look quite promising in the shop, and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels sorry for them.
  • Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as chaos.
  • If I should go before the rest of you,Break not a flower, nor inscribe a stone,Nor, when I’m gone, speak in a Sunday voice,But be the usual selves That I have known.
  • I don't understand Ethel.I don't, I don't really.She's one of my very best friends,Just about the best, nearly.She's an awfully nice girl, Ethel is,Dainty and refined,I mean she'd never do or sayAnything unkind.But get her inside a stadiumAnd she seems to go out of her mind.
  • I was allowed to slave for themFor ever and evermore.Oh, I was allowed to fetch and carryFor my Three Brothers,Jim and Bob and Harry.

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