They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.

No one except those close to her were ever advised of this. She made her stage debut in 1939 in the Little Revue. Death and legacy
She was taken ill in 1973 with an eye infection which was subsequently diagnosed as cancer although Joyce Grenfell was not told.