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The grand dame of English theater and a prolific screen actress, Gladys Cooper was one of the most revered performers of her generation. She began appearing as a photographic model as a child, and after her stage career began she became a popular pin-up postcard model for British troops during World War I. Her first film appearance was in the...
Nov. 17, 1971, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire (aged 82) 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. Cooper, Gladys.
People bought them to keep as souvenirs as well as to send to friends. Gladys Cooper was widely acclaimed as one of the great beauties of the stage & screen. She also became famous for her appearance on many picture postcards issued during the postcard boom of the early 1900's. By the time she had reached her late twenties she was to appear on ...
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).
English actress whose career spanned over seven decades on stage, film and television. Moved to Hollywood in 1940.
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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...
Dec 22, 2014 · Piedmont. Gladys Helen White Cooper, 92, widow of Rev. Veldee Joe Cooper, died Sunday, December 21, 2014, at Lila Doyle Nursing Care Facility in Seneca, SC. Born in Greenville County, she was a ...
