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  1. Barbara Cook
    American actress and singer
  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Barbara_CookBarbara Cook - Wikipedia

    Barbara Cook (October 25, 1927 – August 8, 2017) was an American actress and singer who first came to prominence in the 1950s as the lead in the original Broadway musicals Plain and Fancy (1955), Candide (1956) and The Music Man (1957) among others, winning a Tony Award for the last. She continued performing mostly in theatre until the mid ...

  3. Aug 8, 2017 · Barbara Cook was born in Atlanta on Oct. 25, 1927, the older of two daughters of Charles Cook, a traveling salesman, and the former Nell Harwell, a telephone operator for Southern Bell.

  4. Barbara Cook. Actress: Thumbelina. Barbara Cook is best-loved and remembered for her work on the Broadway stage. An amazing singer and refreshingly impulsive actress, she made her debut at age 23 in the musical "Flahooley". Roles in "Plain and Fancy" and, the most famous flop of all time, "Candide" followed. In 1957, she created her most famous role as Marion Paroo opposite Robert Preston in ...

    • October 25, 1927
    • August 8, 2017
  5. Aug 11, 2017 · Today we're remembering Barbara Cook, the Broadway and cabaret singer who died Tuesday at age 89. Barbara Cook first became known for her starring roles in the original Broadway productions of ...

  6. Sep 22, 2021 · Sam Cooke was 18 and Barbara Campbell was only 13 when they met on the South Side of Chicago. Fifteen years later, Mr. Cooke, by then a pop superstar, was dead, killed in a motel tryst gone awry ...

  7. Jun 30, 2017 · After starring in Broadway shows like The Music Man and Candide, Cook struggled with addiction, then staged a successful second career as a cabaret singer. Originally broadcast June 27, 2016.

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  9. Aug 8, 2017 · Tony Award-winning actress and singer Barbara Cook, an ingénue in Broadway's Golden Age — during the 1950s and '60s — who later transformed herself into a concert and cabaret star, has died.

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