1. Joan Mary Waller Greenwood was an English actress.
35 Facts About Joan Greenwood
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Joan Greenwood played Sibella in the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets, and appeared in The Man in the White Suit, Young Wives' Tale, The Importance of Being Earnest, Stage Struck, Tom Jones and Little Dorrit.
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Joan Greenwood opened The Grass Is Greener in the West End in 1952, and played Gwendolen in a film version of The Importance of Being Earnest released in the same year.
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Joan Greenwood had leading roles in Stage Struck and then in Mysterious Island, an adaptation of a Jules Verne novel; and was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for Tom Jones.
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In 1960, Joan Greenwood appeared as the titular character in a production of Hedda Gabler at the Oxford Playhouse.
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Joan Greenwood's parents were Ida and Sydney Earnshaw Greenwood, a portrait artist.
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Joan Greenwood went to school at St Catherine's School, Bramley, leaving when she was 15.
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Joan Greenwood originally wanted to be a ballet dancer but then decided to act, and studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
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Joan Greenwood appeared in Little Ladyship on TV and in the short John Smith Wakes Up.
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Joan Greenwood joined the Oxford Playhouse Repertory Company, and whilst there played leading parts in a number of well-known plays, such as School for Scandal, Caesar and Cleopatra, Hamlet and A Doll's House.
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Joan Greenwood went back to the London stage and appeared in productions of Little Ladyship, Peter Pan, Heartbreak House, and The Women.
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Joan Greenwood had a supporting part in Frenzy and They Knew Mr Knight.
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Joan Greenwood appeared in the role of Wendy in Peter Pan and as Elie Dunn in Heartbreak House.
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Joan Greenwood played Ophelia in Hamlet with the Donald Wolfit company, Nora in A Doll's House, Celia in Volpone and Sabina in The Young Wives' Tale.
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Joan Greenwood was cast in the lead role of Saraband for Dead Lovers, as Sophia Dorothea of Celle, alongside Stewart Granger, but it was an expensive box-office failure.
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Joan Greenwood did The Importance of Being Earnest for TV; then played Lady Caroline Lamb in The Bad Lord Byron, a notorious flop.
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Joan Greenwood did another for Ealing, Kind Hearts and Coronets, with Dennis Price and Alec Guinness, directed by Robert Hamer.
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Joan Greenwood was Richard Todd's leading lady in Flesh and Blood, at British Lion.
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Joan Greenwood went to France to co-star with Bourvil in Mr Peek-a-Boo.
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Joan Greenwood did another for Ealing with Mackendrick and Guinness, The Man in the White Suit, then Young Wives' Tale and did The Importance of Being Earnest again, this time as a feature film.
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Joan Greenwood appeared on TV shows such as BBC Sunday-Night Theatre.
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Joan Greenwood did The King and Mrs Candle for American TV, and made her third film with Guinness and second with Hamer, Father Brown.
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In 1956, Joan Greenwood starred in The Grass is Greener in the West End.
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Joan Greenwood had a support role in Stage Struck, Mysterious Island and the female lead in The Amorous Mr Prawn.
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Joan Greenwood had a flashy support role in Tom Jones, and The Moon-Spinners.
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Joan Greenwood appeared as Olga, alongside Spike Milligan in Frank Dunlop's production of the play Oblomov, based on the novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov.
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Joan Greenwood looked beautiful, and played the part of Oblomov's unfortunate lady with total integrity.
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Joan Greenwood was in the play Those That Play the Clowns, which had a short run on Broadway.
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Joan Greenwood dubbed the voice of The Black Queen in Barbarella when the voice of actress Anita Pallenberg was judged unsuitable for the role.
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Joan Greenwood was in The Great Inimitable Mr Dickens and Girl Stroke Boy.
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Joan Greenwood took over from Dame Celia Johnson on stage in The Understanding after Johnson's death.
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Joan Greenwood played Lady Carlton, a quirky romance novelist and the landlady to the main characters, in the British sitcom Girls on Top.
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Joan Greenwood was in Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel.
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Joan Greenwood appeared on stage in a sketch with Robert Morley two weeks before her death.
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On 28 February 1987, nine years after her husband's death, Joan Greenwood died from acute bronchitis and asthma at her home in London.