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
Direction Dallas Bower
Cast Carol Marsh · Stephen Murray · Pamela Brown · Ernest Milton
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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