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Celebrating television's This Is Your Life
Joyce CAREY OBE (1898-1993)
THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Joyce Carey, actress, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at London's Waldorf Hotel, having been led to believe she was to take part in a press photo shoot with the cast of the current West End production of the play Blithe Spirit, in celebration of her 70 years in the theatre.
Joyce, who made her stage debut in October 1916 at the age of 18 in an all-female production of Henry V, found early success in a series of light comedy roles in London's West End. She is best known for her long and personal relationship with the playwright Noel Coward – initially with the play Easy Virtue, and later starring in the playwright's most popular plays, This Happy Breed, Blithe Spirit, and Present Laughter, in which she played Liz – a character based partly on herself.
Her film work includes the role of the manageress of the station buffet in Coward's Brief Encounter, the petty officer's wife in In Which We Serve and Mrs Bradman in Blithe Spirit. Between 1976 and 1979 Joyce starred in the popular ITV series The Cedar Tree, and her last stage performance was in 1984, as Mrs Higgins in Pygmalion, opposite Peter O'Toole.
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