Eileen Joyce
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Eileen Alannah Joyce CMG was an Australian pianist whose career spanned more than 30 years. She lived in England in her adult years.
Eileen Joyce in 1952
Eileen Joyce's grave at St Peter's Church in Limpsfield, Surrey, England
Brief Encounter
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Brief Encounter is a 1945 British romantic tragedy film directed by David Lean from a screenplay by Noël Coward, based on his 1936 one-act play Still Life. The film stars Celia Johnson and Trevor Howa
Eileen Joyce
…commanding authority", and "a Lisztian of both poetry and bravura". Her playing of the second movement of Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto in the films Brief Encounter and The Seventh Veil (both 1945) helped popularise the work. A 1950 biography of Joyce's early life became a best-seller and was translated into various…
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Laura (Celia Johnson) and Alec (Trevor Howard) say their penultimate goodbyes at the railway station
Jenny Seagrove and Nigel Havers rehearsing