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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 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. She also became a manager of the Playhouse Theatre from 1917 to 1933, where ...
Gladys Cooper. Highest Rated: 100% Mr. Lucky (1943) Lowest Rated: 50% The Happiest Millionaire (1967) Birthday: Dec 18, 1888. Birthplace: Lewisham, London, England, UK. The grand dame of English ...
Jan 13, 2011 · Oscar Profile. by. Peter J Patrick. Tags: 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 ...
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).
Nov 10, 2013 · Gladys Cooper and Alfred Hitchcock launched their careers in Hollywood at the same time on the same film - Rebecca (1940). Cooper's was the small role of a tweedy aristocrat, the sister of Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier), who offered warmth and kindness to the beleaguered second Mrs. de Winter (Joan Fontaine).
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 ...
Dame Gladys Cooper (1888-1971), Actress. Sitter in 174 portraits A great British figure of twentieth-century theatre, Cooper started her career as a chorus girl in The Girls of Gottenberg (1907) with George Edwardes's company at the Gaiety theatre in London, returning the following year as a 'travelling newspaper beauty' in Havana. She was the ...
