Joyce Grenfell

Person · Open Library

Born

1910

Died

1979

Works

27

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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

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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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Microenvironmental regulation of tumor progression and metastasis

   · 2013 · cited 6,785x

2. Methods for detecting carcinogens and mutagens with the salmonella/mammalian-microsome mutagenicity test

   · 1975 · cited 6,275x

3. The PHQ-8 as a measure of current depression in the general population

   · 2009 · cited 4,443x

4. Whole-Genome Random Sequencing and Assembly of <i>Haemophilus influenzae</i> Rd

   · 1995 · cited 4,420x

5. Trust, Reciprocity, and Social History

   · 1995 · cited 3,881x

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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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