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Gladys Cooper. Actress: My Fair Lady. 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 being discovered by Seymour Hicks to tour with his company in "Bluebell in Fairyland". She ...
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 war die älteste von drei Töchtern des Journalisten William Frederick Cooper (1844–1939) und seiner Ehefrau Mabel Barnett (1861–1944). Sie wuchs im Londoner Stadtteil Chiswick auf, nebenbei arbeitete sie bereits als Kind als Fotomodell.
Gladys Cooper. 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.
Dame Gladys Cooper (1888-1971), Actress. Sitter in 177 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.
Bette Davis chats with Dick Cavett about her famous line from Now Voyager, Gladys Cooper, and ruminates on the loss of great actors. Date aired - November 17...
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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).
