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Gladys Cooper

Gladys Cooper

Birthday: 1888-12-18 | Place of Birth: Chiswick, England, UK

Dame Gladys Constance Cooper (18 December 1888 – 17 November 1971) was an English actress, theatrical manager and producer, whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television. Beginning as a teenager in Edwardian musical comedy and pantomime, she starred in dramatic roles and silent films before the First World War. She managed the Playhouse Theatre from 1917 to 1934, where she starred in many roles. From the early 1920s Cooper won praise in plays by W. Somerset Maugham and others. In the 1930s she starred steadily in productions both in London's West End and on Broadway. Moving to Hollywood in 1940, Cooper found success in a variety of character roles. She received three Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress, for performances in The Song of Bernadette (1943), My Fair Lady (1964) and, most famously, Now, Voyager (1942). Throughout the 1950s and 1960s she worked both on stage and on screen, continuing to star on stage until her last year. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gladys Cooper, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1976
The Switch

as    Grand Duchess Ozerov

1970
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens

as    Mrs. Ternan

1967
The Happiest Millionaire

as    Aunt Mary

1964
The Rogues

as    Margaret St. Clair

1964
My Fair Lady

as    Mrs. Higgins

1963
Pygmalion

as    Mrs. Higgins

1963
The List of Adrian Messenger

as    Mrs. Karoudjian

1958
Separate Tables

as    Mrs. Railton-Bell

1957
The Mystery of Thirteen

as    Mrs. Palmer

1955
The Man Who Loved Redheads

as    Lady Binfield

1952
At Sword's Point

as    Queen Anne

1951
Thunder on the Hill

as    Mother Superior

1949
Madame Bovary

as    Madame Dupuis

1949
The Secret Garden

as    Mrs. Medlock

1948
The Pirate

as    Aunt Inez

1948
The Bishop's Wife

as    Mrs. Hamilton

1948
Homecoming

as    Mrs. Kirby

1947
Beware of Pity

as    Mrs. Klara Condor

1947
Green Dolphin Street

as    Sophie Patourel

1946
The Cockeyed Miracle

as    Amy Griggs

1946
The Green Years

as    Grandma Leckie

1945
Love Letters

as    Beatrice Remington

1945
The Valley of Decision

as    Clarissa Scott

1944
Mrs. Parkington

as    Alice, Dutchess de Brancourt

1944
The White Cliffs of Dover

as    Jean Ashwood

1943
Princess O'Rourke

as    Miss Haskell

1943
The Song of Bernadette

as    Sister Marie Therese Vauzous

1943
Mr. Lucky

as    Veronica Steadman

1942
Now, Voyager

as    Mrs. Henry Vale