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Cooper, Gladys (1888–1971) English actress-manager and musical-comedy star, best known for her roles in drawing-room comedy, who was the most popular actress on the London stage by 1914 and darling of British "Tommies" as they went into battle in the First World War. Name variations: Dame Gladys Cooper.
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.
Dame Gladys Cooper. Birth Place. Lewisham, England, GB. Born. December 18, 1888. Died. November 17, 1971. Biography. Read More. The grand dame of English theater and a prolific screen actress, Gladys Cooper was one of the most revered performers of her generation.
Dec 3, 2019 · Now, Voyager ’s real badass mom, and not in a good way, is her mother, a snobby Boston Brahmin played with quietly rabid conviction by British actress Gladys Cooper. Mrs. Henry Vale is a prime example of how melodrama of the period rendered the horrid mothers in classic fairy tales—the witch, the wicked stepmother, the predatory crone.
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 was a musical.
Jan 13, 2011 · Oscar Profile #20: Gladys Cooper. Born December 18, 1888 in London, England, Gladys Cooper would have one of the most celebrated stage and screen careers of the Twentieth Century. Considered a great beauty even as a child, she became a photographer’s model at the age of six. She made her stage debut at 16 in 1905 in the British touring ...
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...
