Grenfell, Joyce (1910–1979)

English entertainer. Her comic monologues gently mocked the habits and manners of middle-class, English schoolmistresses and ageing spinster daughters. Her own one-woman shows included Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure (1954–55). She wrote her autobiography, Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure (1976), and her catch-phrase title George, Don't Do That (1977).

Grenfell was born in London, and made her debut in The Little Revue in 1939. After touring hospitals with concert parties during World War II, she performed her monologues in revue until the early 1950s.