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3. Dame Gladys Constance Cooper, DBE (18 December 1888 – 17 November 1971) was an English actress, theatrical manager and producer, whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television. Beginning as a teenager in Edwardian musical comedy and pantomime, she starred in dramatic roles and silent films before the First World War.
Nov 18, 1971 · LONDON, Nov. 17—Gladys Cooper, the actress who charmed three generations of theatergoers, died in her sleep today at the age of 82. She had been ill with pneu monia for 10 weeks at her home at ...
Gladys Cooper. Actress: My Fair Lady. Gladys Cooper was the daughter of journalist William Frederick Cooper and his wife Mabel Barnett. As a child she was very striking and was used as a photographic model beginning at six years old. She wanted to become an actress and started on that road in 1905 after being discovered by Seymour Hicks to tour ...
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- Lewisham, London, England, UK
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- Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Lester Allen, Gladys Cooper, Walter Slezak, and George Zucco in The Pirate (1948)- Gladys Cooper in The Pirate (1948)
- Claudette Colbert, Gladys Cooper, and Connie Gilchrist in Thunder on the Hill (1951)
- Claudette Colbert, Robert Douglas, Gladys Cooper, and Philip Friend in Thunder on the Hill (1951)
Dame Gladys Cooper (born Dec. 18, 1888, Lewisham, London, Eng.—died Nov. 17, 1971, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire) was a popular British actress-manager who started her 66-year theatrical career as a Gaiety Girl and ended it as a widely respected mistress of her craft.
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Dame Gladys Constance Cooper, DBE (18 December 1888 – 17 November 1971) was an English actress whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television. Beginning on the stage as a teenager in Edwardian musical comedy and pantomime, she was starring in dramatic roles and silent films by World War I. She also became a manager of the Playhouse Theatre from 1917 to 1933, where ...
Bette Davis chats with Dick Cavett about her famous line from Now Voyager, Gladys Cooper, and ruminates on the loss of great actors. Date aired - November 17...
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Dec 3, 2019 · Transitioning to Hollywood, Cooper played all sorts, from the kindly sister opposite Laurence Olivier’s Maxim de Winter in Rebecca (1940), to her Academy Award–nominated role in Now, Voyager, to a punishing nun in The Song of Bernadette (1943). She shone in an ancillary role as Henry Higgins’s astute mother in My Fair Lady (1964).
