Joan Greenwood

Actor

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Birth Place

London, England, GB

Born

March 04, 1921

Died

February 28, 1987

Cause of Death

Apparent Heart Attack

Biography

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Offbeat, petite, uniquely plummy-voiced leading lady who graced several classic British comedies of the 1940s and 50s, including "Kind Hearts and Coronets" (1949), "The Man in the White Suit" (1951) and the screen version of Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" (1952). The gifted Greenwood possessed a special blend of the aristocratic and the sultry which made her extremely us...

Filmography

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Little Dorrit (1988)

Past Caring (1985)

Dollie Van Der Biek

The Flame Is Love (1979)

Duchess Of Grantham

The Water Babies (1979)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978)

Photos & Videos

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Mysterious Island (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Listen Captain Nemo

Mysterious Island (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Cook In A Slow Oven

Family & Companions

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Andre Morell

Husband

Actor. Married fron 1960 until his death in 1978.

Biography

Offbeat, petite, uniquely plummy-voiced leading lady who graced several classic British comedies of the 1940s and 50s, including "Kind Hearts and Coronets" (1949), "The Man in the White Suit" (1951) and the screen version of Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" (1952). The gifted Greenwood possessed a special blend of the aristocratic and the sultry which made her extremely useful for a time in British film; later she specialized in highly enjoyable character roles, still classy and authoritative but more eccentric than sexy, in films including "Mysterious Island" (1961) and "Tom Jones" (1963).

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Little Dorrit (1988)

Past Caring (1985)

Dollie Van Der Biek

The Flame Is Love (1979)

Duchess Of Grantham

The Water Babies (1979)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978)

The Uncanny (1977)

Miss Malkin ("London 1912")

Girl Stroke Boy (1971)

The Moon-Spinners (1964)

The Playgirl and the War Minister (1963)

Tom Jones (1963)

Mysterious Island (1961)

Lady Mary Fairchild

Stage Struck (1958)

Moonfleet (1955)

Lady [Clarista] Ashwood

Lovers, Happy Lovers! (1954)

The Detective (1954)

The Importance Of Being Earnest (1952)

Gwendolyn Fairfax

Flesh and Blood (1951)

The Man in the White Suit (1951)

Daphney Birnley

Young Wives' Tale (1951)

Whisky Galore! (1949)

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948)

The Bad Lord Byron (1948)

The October Man (1947)

The Man Within (1947)

A Girl in a Million (1946)

They Knew Mr. Knight (1945)

The Gentle Sex (1943)

My Wife's Family (1941)

He Found a Star (1941)

Cast (Special)

Man and Superman (1956)

Cast (Short)

Hest pa sommerferie (1959)

Voice ("Horse On Holiday")

Cast (TV Mini-Series)

Ellis Island (1984)

Madame Levitska

Life Events

Photo Collections

Tom Jones - Movie Poster

Here is a country-of-origin British Quad movie poster for Tom Jones (1963), starring Albert Finney and directed by Tony Richardson.

Mysterious Island (1961) - Lobby Card Set

Here is a set of Lobby Cards from Columbia's Mysterious Island (1961), featuring special effects by Ray Harryhausen. Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.

Moonfleet - Behind-the-Scenes Photos

Here are a number of photos taken behind-the-scenes during production of MGM's Moonfleet (1955), starring Stewart Granger, Viveca Lindfors, and George Sanders, and directed by Fritz Lang.

Videos

Mysterious Island (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Listen Captain Nemo After the pirate ship sinks, Herbert and Elena (Michael Callan, Beth Rogan) rush back, then Captain Nemo (Herbert Lom) finally emerges, conversing with Spillett, Lady Mary and Captain Harding (Gary Merrill, Joan Greenwood, Michael Craig), over an hour into Mysterious Island, 1961.

Mysterious Island (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Cook In A Slow Oven Spillett (Gary Merrill) is having a swim when a new Ray Harryhausen beast appears, Lady Mary and Elena (Joan Greenwood, Beth Rogan) attempt to resist, soldier Herbert (Michael Callan) finally interceding, hard times for the Civil War refugees on Jules Verne's Mysterious Island, 1961.

Man in the White Suit, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) A Bit Luminous Sidney (Alec Guinness) finishes constructing his indestructible white suit and rushes to show it off to Daphne (Joan Greenwood) in Ealing Studios The Man in the White Suit, 1951, from Roger MacDougall's play.

Man in the White Suit, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Elastic Properties Realizing that Miss Birmley (Joan Greenwood) has caught him experimenting with textiles, Sidney (Alec Guinness) tries to persuade her to remain silent, in Alexander Mackendrick's The Man in the White Suit, 1951.

Kind Hearts And Coronets -- (Movie Clip) Monsters of Arrogance Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price, also narrating) meets his first two d'Ascoynes (all of whom are Alec Guinness) along his comical murderous quest, in Kind Hearts And Coronets, 1949.

Saraband For Dead Lovers -- (Movie Clip) King Of The Wife Notorious Hanoverian Prince George-Louis (Peter Bull), who will become England's George I, is informed of arrangements for his 1682 marriage to Sophie Dorothea of Celle (Joan Greenwood), followed by a dramatically implied wedding night rape, in Ealing Studios' Saraband For Dead Lovers, 1948.

Saraband For Dead Lovers -- (Movie Clip) Dirt Of My Own Choosing Swedish Count Konigsmark (Stewart Granger) tangling with his cruel sponsor Countess Platen (Flora Robson) over his debt to the Hanoverian prince George-Louis (Peter Bull), whose tortured wife (Joan Greenwood) he soon meets, in Saraband For Dead Lovers, 1948.

Gentle Sex, The -- (Movie Clip) No Coupons No Cash Shortly following the opening, recruits to Britain's Auxiliary Territorial Service reporting for duty, Lilli Palmer, Rosamund John, Joan Greenwood featured, in the last film directed by the renowned actor Leslie Howard, The Gentle Sex, 1943.

Gentle Sex, The -- (Movie Clip) Frozen Virtue British Auxiliary recruits on a final night at training, then chat in the barracks, Joyce Howard as blonde Anne, Joan Greenwood as diminutive Betty and Jean Gillie as spunky Dot, Barbara Waring as stern Joan, Lilli Palmer as Czech Erna, in director Leslie Howard's The Gentle Sex, 1943.

Importance of Being Earnest, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Bunbury-ist Algie (Michael Denison) refuses to return a cigarette case to Jack (Michael Redgrave) which has clued him in to his friend's secret, in an early scene from The Importance of Being Earnest, 1952.

Importance of Being Earnest, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Theater Clever "staging" in the opening of director Anthony Asquith's faithful 1952 version of Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest, starring Michael Redgrave, Michael Denison and Joan Greenwood.

Stage Struck (1958) -- (Original Trailer) A young actress makes all the wrong moves trying to break in on Broadway in STAGE STRUCK (1958) starring Susan Strasberg and Henry Fonda, directed by Sidney Lumet.

Importance of Being Earnest, The (1952) - (Original Trailer) A British gentleman is one man in the city, another in the country in Oscar Wilde's The Importance Of Being Earnest (1952).

Moonfleet - (Original Trailer) A British buccaneer (Stewart Granger) is torn among three seductive women in Fritz Lang's Moonfleet (1955).

Kind Hearts and Coronets - (Original Trailer) A young man murders his way up the family tree, each member played by Alec Guinness, in the ultimate British comedy, Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949).

Family

Sydney Earnshaw Greenwood

Father

Artist.

Companions

Andre Morell

Husband

Actor. Married fron 1960 until his death in 1978.

Bibliography

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