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The actress, comedienne and singer-songwriter Joyce Grenfell was born in London and made her stage debut in 1939 in Herbert Farjeon's The Little Revue at London's Little Theatre. In 1942 she wrote what became her signature song I'm Going to See You Today. During the war she toured India, North Africa and the Middle East with a company performing for the British troops. She became a writer at the BBC and later a television panelist. She is perhaps best remembered for her one-woman shows and monologues, including that in which she played the harassed nursery teacher saying the now famous line: 'George - don't do that.'