After the war she played in new Coward plays, Quadrille (with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne) and Nude with Violin (with Gielgud in London and Coward in New York). She later played all three roles in London. In 1942 she rejoined Coward to tour in his three newest plays, This Happy Breed as Sylvia, Blithe Spirit as Ruth, and Present Laughter as Liz – a character based partly on the actress herself. In 1938 she starred in the comedy play Spring Meeting in the West End.ĭuring the Second World War, Carey toured with John Gielgud for the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) bringing theatre to members of the armed forces at home and abroad, recreating some of her roles from Tonight at 8.30.
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In 1936 she resumed her connection with Coward, playing a series of character roles in his cycle of short plays, Tonight at 8.30 in London and New York. In 1934 she wrote (pseudonymously), and acted a supporting role in, a comedy, Sweet Aloes, which ran in London for more than a year. For most of the following seven years, her career was chiefly in New York, following a great success in The Road to Rome in 1927. Her first appearance in a Noël Coward play was as Sarah Hurst in Easy Virtue in New York in 1926. Over the next few years she added Hermia, Celia and Olivia to her Shakespearean repertoire, in between regular appearance in West End comedies. After a succession of West End roles in light comedy, Carey took on further Shakespearean parts, appearing at Stratford-upon-Avon as Anne Page, Perdita, Titania, Miranda and Juliet.
She joined Sir George Alexander's company at the St James's Theatre playing Jacqueline, a French countess, in The Aristocrat. Ĭarey made her stage debut in 1916, aged 18, as Princess Katherine in an all-female production of Henry V. Carey was educated at the Florence Etlinger Dramatic School. Joyce Carey was born Joyce Lilian Lawrence, the daughter of actor Gerald Lawrence, a matinée idol who had been a juvenile in Henry Irving's Shakespeare company, and his wife, actress Lilian Braithwaite, a major West End star. Joyce Carey (seated right) as Arabella Barrett in the original Broadway production of The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1931)
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