Gladys Cooper

...on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on 26 October 1955. Irene M. Selznick was the producer, and the designer was Cecil Beaton. Gladys Cooper (who was also in the 1971 revival) appeared as Mrs. St Maugham, with Siobhan McKenna as Miss...

In this article: The Chalk Garden, Edith Evans, Enid Bagnold, Siobhan McKenna, Fritz Weaver, and London

Many of the Gaiety Girls, such as Marie Studholme, Ellaline Terriss, Lily Elsie, Cicely Courtneidge, Jessie Matthews, Gladys Cooper, Phyllis Dare, Zena Dare, Mabel Love, Evelyn Laye, Gaby Deslys, Camille Clifford, Gabrielle Ray,...

In this article: London, A Gaiety Girl, Connie Gilchrist, Marie Studholme, and Gaby Deslys

...College in Vermont. Cooper transferred to the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California, where she completed her education in drama. Cooper travelled to Europe in 1946 to perform for United States military troops stationed on the...

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...to normal although rigorous spiritual training and hard work, but also emotional abuse from a cold and sinister novitiate director (Gladys Cooper) - her former teacher at school, who is skeptically jealous of all the attention Bernadette has...

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...as Emma Lady Hamilton -- image courtesy Criterion Collection Cast: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Alan Mowbray, Sara Allgood, Gladys Cooper, Henry Wilcoxon US DVD release date: 9 September 2009 (Criterion) Earlier this year, I reviewed...

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...Theatre on 28 November 1951, after a short provincial tour, and ran until 17 January 1953. The play, directed by the author, starred Gladys Cooper as Felicity, Judy Campbell as Miranda, and Angela Baddeley as Moxie. Relative Values did not...

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...produced on her own and proved to be an important milestone in her theatrical career. In return for Cooper agreeing to produce the play, Maugham offered her an option on his next three plays; The Constant Wife, which she refused, The Sacred...

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...larger-than-life character actor Robert Morley, whose performances enlivened countless plays and films. And his grandmother, Dame Gladys Cooper, was the picture postcard beauty who became a majestic grande dame of stage and screen,...

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...1921: Faust on Toast, a burlesque starring Jack Buchanan, and Maurice Maeterlinck's play The Betrothal, featuring Bobbie Andrews and Gladys Cooper, with incidental music by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs and costumes by Charles Ricketts. Grossmith...

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...competition, even though the role of Mrs. Higgins has been played by such illustrious ladies of the stage as Cathleen Nesbitt, Gladys Cooper and Anna Neagle. "It's a small role that's just perfect when you get to a certain age," Howes...

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