Joyce Grenfell
Joyce Irene Grenfell, OBE (née Phipps; 10 February 1910 – 30 November 1979) was a 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. She achieved success as a writer and performer of songs and monologues at a time when it was unusual for a woman of her social background to work.
Early life
Born in Montpelier Square in Knightsbridge, London, Joyce was the daughter of architect Paul Phipps (1880–1953), the grandson of Charles Paul Phipps and a second cousin of Ruth Draper. Her mother was an American socialite, Nora Langhorne (1889–1955), one of five daughters of Chiswell Langhorne, an American railway millionaire. Nancy Astor, née Nancy Langhorne, was one of her mother's sisters, and had also married in England. Grenfell often visited her at Astor's home of Cliveden and later lived on a cottage on the estate ('Parr's'), a mile from the main house, in the early years of her marriage.
Preschool
A preschool (also nursery school, kindergarten outside the US and UK) is an educational establishment offering early childhood education to children between the ages of three and five, prior to the commencement of compulsory education at primary school. They may be privately operated or government run, and the costs may be subsidized.
Terminology
The following terms may be used for educational establishments for this age group:
History
Origins
In an age when school was restricted to children who had already learned to read and write at home, there were many attempts to make school accessible to the children of women who worked in factories or were orphans.
Podcasts:
Joyce Grenfell
ALBUMS
- Requests the Pleasure: The Best of Joyce Grenfell released: 1992
Requests the Pleasure: The Best of Joyce Grenfell
Released 1992- I'm Going to See You Today
- Nursery School: Flowers
- Learn to Loosen (The Music's Message)
- Visitor
- Old Tyme Dancing (Stately as a Galleon)
- I Wouldn't Go Back
- Committee
- Green Summer (In the Green Time of Moon Daisies)
- The Wedding Is on Saturday
- Narcissus (The Laughing Record)
- The Old Girls' School Reunion
- Wrong Songs for Wrong Singers (or Songs to Make You Sick)
- Shirley's Girlfriend: "Fun Fair"
- Dear Francois
- Nicodemus
- Drifting
- Nursery School: Sing Song Time
- Ballad
- Hostess
- Artists' Room
- Lullaby
Born: 1910-02-10
Died: 1979-11-30
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by Carmen Mcrae
Song Time
by: Carmen McraeThou swell, thou witty, thou sweet, thou grand
Wouldst kiss me pretty? Wouldst hold my hand?
Both thine eyes are cute too, what they do to me
Hear me holler, I choose a sweet lollapaloosa in thee
I'd feel so rich in a hut for two
Two rooms and kitchen I'm sure would do
Give me just a plot of, not a lot of land
And thou swell, thou witty, thou grand