Cast: Joyce Grenfell

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Joyce Grenfell. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Stage Fright

1950 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Jane Wyman · Michael Wilding · Richard Todd

Plot A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high society entertainer.

6.9

3K votes

6.9

3K votes

Man with a Million

1954 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Gregory Peck · Ronald Squire · Joyce Grenfell · A.E. Matthews

Plot An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who has conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds....

6.6

971 votes

6.6

971 votes

Genevieve

1953 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Henry Cornelius

Cast Dinah Sheridan · John Gregson · Kay Kendall · Kenneth More

Plot It's time for the annual London to Brighton antique car rally, and Alan McKim and Ambrose Claverhouse are not going to let their friendship stop them from trying to humiliate...

6.4

222 votes

6.4

222 votes

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

1964 · Movie · 122 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Asquith

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Rex Harrison · Shirley MacLaine · Jeanne Moreau

Plot Written by Terence Rattigan, The Yellow Rolls-Royce presented three stages in the life of the Rolls. We saw it first in a West End shop-window, where its impressive dignity and...

6.0

590 votes

6.0

590 votes

The Belles of St. Trinian's

1954 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Frank Launder

Cast Alastair Sim · Joyce Grenfell · Hermione Baddeley · George Cole

Plot The arrival of Sultan's daughter Princess Fatima at England's famous and prestigious 'School for Young Ladies' precipitates even more chaos than usual. Her father's horse Arab Boy is due to...

5.8

34 votes

5.8

34 votes

Alice in Wonderland

1949 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

5.6

37 votes

5.6

37 votes

Laughter in Paradise

1951 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mario Zampi

Cast Alastair Sim · Fay Compton · Guy Middleton · George Cole

Plot Famed practical joker Henry Russell leaves 50,000 pounds to each of his four surviving relatives. But his will has one last joke - they each have to undertake a task...

5.6

41 votes

5.6

41 votes

The Old Dark House

1963 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction William Castle

Cast Tom Poston · Robert Morley · Janette Scott · Joyce Grenfell

Plot An American who sells cars in England receives a mysterious invitation from an old, excentric millionaire to visit his house in which he lives with his twin brother.

4.7

128 votes

4.7

128 votes

Happy Is the Bride

1958 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roy Boulting

Cast Ian Carmichael · Janette Scott · Cecil Parker · Terry-Thomas

Plot In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone else to take over...

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The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's

1960 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Frank Launder

Cast Cecil Parker · George Cole · Joyce Grenfell · Eric Barker

Plot When the school burns to the ground there's clearly been some arson around. The pupils are found guilty and the judge hands them into the care of a pretty dubious...

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The Lamp Still Burns

1943 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Maurice Elvey

Cast Rosamund John · Stewart Granger · Godfrey Tearle · Sophie Stewart

Plot A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.

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Forbidden Cargo

1954 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Harold French

Cast Jack Warner · Nigel Patrick · Elizabeth Sellars · Terence Morgan

Plot Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother and sister drug smuggling team.

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The Pickwick Papers

1952 · Movie · 109 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Noël Langley

Cast James Hayter · James Donald · Nigel Patrick · Joyce Grenfell

Plot The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find. In the course of their...

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A Run for Your Money

1949 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Frend

Cast Donald Houston · Meredith Edwards · Moira Lister · Alec Guinness

Plot Comedy in which a pair of Welsh miners, Twm and Dai Jones, win a competition and take a trip to London to see the England-Wales Rugby match but miss their...

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The Galloping Major

1951 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Henry Cornelius

Cast Basil Radford · Jimmy Hanley · Janette Scott · A.E. Matthews

Plot A syndicate is set up by a horse lover to buy a particular racehorse, but they accidentally buy the wrong horse. The horse is useless on the flat, so they...

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Blue Murder at St. Trinian's

1957 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Frank Launder

Cast Terry-Thomas · George Cole · Joyce Grenfell · Alastair Sim

Plot To further the aims of the St Trinian's Marriage Bureau run by Flash Harry, the school contrives to win a competition with a European "Goodwill" trip as prize, to the...

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While the Sun Shines

1947 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Asquith

Cast Barbara White · Ronald Squire · Brenda Bruce · Bonar Colleano

Plot Lady Elisabeth Randall is an English Air Force corporal during World War II. She is on her way to marry her fiancé when she finds herself being romanced by two...

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The Good Companions

1957 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom

Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast Eric Portman · Celia Johnson · Hugh Griffith · Janette Scott

Plot A touring variety troupe, the "Dinky Doos" are in financial trouble. An encounter with three strangers - Inigo Jollifant (a romantic, song-writing ex-schoolmaster), Miss Trant (a philanthropic spinster in search...

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The Demi-Paradise

1943 · Movie · 114 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Asquith

Cast Laurence Olivier · Penelope Dudley-Ward · Marjorie Fielding · George Tjorpe

Plot Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking ships. Naïve about British people...

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