Gladys Cooper
Actor, Theater Actor
1888 – 1971
Who was Gladys Cooper?
Dame Gladys Constance Cooper DBE 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 before the beginning of the First World War. She also became a manager of the Playhouse Theatre from 1917 to 1933, where she played many roles. Beginning in the early 1920s, Cooper was winning praise in plays by W. Somerset Maugham and others. In the 1930s, she was starring steadily both in the West End and on Broadway. Moving to Hollywood in 1940, Cooper found success in a variety of character roles; she was nominated for three Academy Awards, the last one as Mrs. Higgins in My Fair Lady. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, she mixed her stage and film careers, continuing to star on stage until her last year.
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- Born
- Dec 18, 1888
Hither Green - Also known as
- Gladys Constance Cooper
- Dame Gladys Constance Cooper
- Dame Gladys Cooper
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Sir Neville Pearson, 2nd Baronet
(1927 - 1936/10/16) - Philip Merivale
(1937/04/30 - 1946/03/12) - Herbert Buckmaster
(1908/12/12 - 1921/12/12)
- Sir Neville Pearson, 2nd Baronet
- Children
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Lived in
- Chiswick
- Died
- Nov 17, 1971
Henley-on-Thames
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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