February 28, 1987
Joan Greenwood/Date of death

Heart attack
Joan Greenwood/Cause of death

March 4, 1921
Joan Greenwood/Date of birth

Miss Greenwood, born in the Chelsea section of London on March 4, 1921, was the daughter of Sydney Earnshaw Greenwood, an artist.

Deceased (1921–1987)
Joan Greenwood/Living or Deceased

1h 25m
The Man in the White Suit/Running time

She played Lady Carlton, a quirky romance novelist and the landlady to the main characters, in the British sitcom Girls on Top (1985–86). She was in Miss Marple: At Bertram’s Hotel (1987). Her last film was Little Dorrit (1988), released posthumously. Her last TV series was Melba (1988).

Robert Hamer
John Dighton
Kind Hearts and Coronets/Screenplay

André Morellm. 1960–1978
Joan Greenwood/Spouse
Greenwood married André Morell in 1960. Their son, Jason Morell, is an actor, writer and film/theatre director.

Filming Locations (5) Piccadilly Road, Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK (Van & Cars crossing left to right looking down street.) Daily Express building – 121 Fleet Street, Holborn, London, England, UK (printing news of Sidney’s invention.)

Mandy Miller
Mandy Miller (born Carman Isabella Miller, 23 July 1944) is an English child actress who made a number of films in the 1950s and is probably best remembered for her recording of the 1956 song “Nellie the Elephant”.

Kind Hearts and Coronets is the elegant black comedy about a suburban draper’s assistant, Louis Mazzini, played by Dennis Price, who by a quirk of fate is distantly in line to a dukedom and sets out to murder every single nobleman and noblewoman ahead of him in the succession so that he can get his hands on the ermine.

Kind Hearts and Coronets is a 1949 British black comedy film. It features Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson and Alec Guinness; Guinness plays nine characters….

Greenwood was born in 1921 in Chelsea, London. Her parents were Ida (née Waller) and Sydney Earnshaw Greenwood (1887–1949), a portrait artist. Her education included studies at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art .

Joan Greenwood, of the plummy feline voice, was born in the well-to-do London section of Chelsea, the daughter of renowned portrait painter Sydney Earnshaw Greenwood (1887-1949). Dancing from the age of eight, she took ballet lessons and later enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).

From this time onward, Joan began to alternate between stage and screen, comedy and drama. She worked during the London Blitz and toured with the Entertainment National Service Association (ENSA).

Her last film was Little Dorrit (1988), released posthumously. Her last TV series was Melba (1988). She appeared on stage in a sketch with Robert Morley two weeks before her death.