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    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 ...

  2. Sep 22, 2021 · Barbara and Sam had married and divorced other people before marrying each other in Chicago in 1959, with Mr. Cooke’s disapproving father, the Rev. Charles Cook, performing the ceremony.

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  4. Aug 8, 2017 · Barbara Cook, the theater icon and soaring soprano known for originating roles in some of Broadway’s most acclaimed musicals like The Music Man and Candide, has died. She was 89. Cook died of ...

  5. Aug 8, 2017 · She was 89. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) NEW YORK (AP) — Barbara Cook, whose shimmering soprano made her one of Broadway’s leading ingenues and later a major cabaret and concert interpreter of popular American song, has died. She was 89. Cook died early Tuesday of respiratory failure at her home in Manhattan, surrounded by family and friends ...

  6. 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.

  7. Feb 10, 2019 · Sam Cooke with wife Barbara and their lawyer in 1960. Picture: Getty Sam Cooke was married twice. His first marriage was to singer and dancer Dolores Elizabeth Milligan Cook, who was killed in a car accident in 1959. Although he and Dolores were divorced at the time, Cooke paid for his ex-wife's funeral.

  8. Aug 8, 2017 · Barbara Cook as Ado Annie in the 1953 Broadway revival of Oklahoma! ... Cook married David LeGrant, an acting teacher, in 1952; they divorced in 1965. In 1959 the couple had one son, Adam, by whom ...

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