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" Carey's other Coward film roles were the petty officer's wife in In Which We Serve and Mrs Bradman in Blithe Spirit. Between 1976 and 1979 Joyce Carey starred in the popular ITV series The Cedar Tree. For most of the following seven years Carey's career was chiefly in New York following a great success in The Road to Rome in 1927.

Joyce Carey OBE (30 March 1898 – 28 February 1993) was a British actress best known for her long professional and personal relationship with Noël Coward. Though never a star Joyce Carey was a familiar face both on stage and screen. Her stage career lasted from 1916 until 1984 and Joyce Carey was performing on television in her nineties.