Joyce Grenfell
Joyce Irene Grenfell, OBE (nee Phipps 10 February 1910 - 30 November 1979), British comedienne, actress and, in her time, one of the country's best loved entertainers, immortalised in roles such as the gym mistress Miss Gossage in The Happiest Days of Your Life and Ruby Gates in the St Trinian's films. Pictured here in the style of an Italian Old Master at the time she was responsible for designing costumes for a musical show, Dear Love at the Palace Theatre in November 1922
Picture No
11070731
Media ID
46117150
Size
4791px x 6218px
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Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Sasha exclusively for The Sketch magazine, 13 November 1929
Date
1922
