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In 1957, Hiller returned to New York to star as Josie Hogan in Eugene O'Neill 's A Moon for the Misbegotten, a performance that gained her a Tony Award nomination as Best Dramatic Actress. The production also featured Cyril Cusack and Franchot Tone.
In 1934, Wendy Hiller was chosen to play Sally Hardcastle, a slum dweller, in the stage version of ‘Love on the Dole’. The play was hugely successful and reached the West End Theatre in 1935. In 1936, she travelled to New York with the play.
Aug 11, 2024 · In 1975 Hiller was created a Dame of the British Empire. She continued to appear on stage, screen, and television through the 1990s and gave one of the best performances of her later years as the irritable elderly Southern gentlewoman in a London production of Driving Miss Daisy (1988).
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May 17, 2003 · She cemented her fame by playing a materialist turned romantic in a lyrical 1945 film, ''I Know Where I'm Going!,'' and a lonely but resilient hotelkeeper in ''Separate Tables'' (1958), which...
A fine interpreter of Ibsen, Shakespeare and O'Neill as well as her beloved Shaw, Ms. Hiller stayed close to the theatre for nearly six decades, yet also managed a long and fruitful, if somewhat erratic, career on screen and TV.
- August 15, 1912
- May 14, 2003
Aug 13, 2015 · Hiller became an international star as Eliza Dolittle in the 1938 film version of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion opposite Leslie Howard as Henry Higgins, for which she received the first of her three Oscar nominations, her only one in a leading role.
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May 17, 2003 · Hiller, who had a 50-year career as a stage star and Oscar-winning film actress, died Wednesday at her home in Beaconsfield, west of London, her family said. The cause of death was not announced.
