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Gladys Cooper. Cooper in 1913. Dame Gladys Constance Cooper DBE (December 18, 1888 – November 17, 1971) was a British actress. Her career spanned almost seventy years in movies, on stage and in television. She performed in stage plays including The Dollar Princess, The Importance of Being Earnest and Bluebell in Fairyland, the latter of which ...
Jun 12, 2017 · Gladys Cooper: A Biography. Kindle Edition. by Sheridan Morley (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.3 108 ratings. See all formats and editions. ‘She had all the charm of an electric carving knife’ Dirk Bogarde. ‘She was a darling girl’ Sybil Thorndike. Two views of Gladys Cooper from among the countless vivid personal recollections of ...
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Dec 17, 2020 · Dame Gladys Constance Cooper was born in 1888 to a journalist and founding editor of food and beverage publication The Epicure.Cooper was a particularly attractive child growing up and began her life in the spotlight at very young age, modeling for postcards before transitioning to the stage and then earning roles in films like My Fair Lady, Rebecca, and The Secret Garden, plus a recurring ...
Gladys Cooper. Actor. Born December 18, 1888 in Lewisham, London, England, UK. 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 ...
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 thousands of different postcards. Through the huge public fascination ...
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 thousands of different postcards. Through the huge public fascination ...
Widely acclaimed as one of the great beauties of the stage, British actress Gladys Cooper had the added advantage of great talent. Daughter of a London magazine editor, she made her stage bow at age 17 in a Colchester production of Bluebell in Fairyland; at 19, she was a member of the "Gaiety Girls," a famous and famously attractive chorus-girl line.
