For the British naïve painter, see Gladys Cooper (artist).
Dame
Gladys Cooper
DBE
Cooper in 1913
Born
Gladys Constance Cooper
(1888-12-18)18 December 1888
Hither Green, London, England
Died
17 November 1971(1971-11-17) (aged 82)
Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England
Occupation
Actress
Years active
1905–1971
Spouses
Capt. Herbert John Buckmaster
(m. 1908; div. 1921)
Sir Neville Pearson, 2nd Baronet
(m. 1927; div. 1936)
Philip Merivale
(m. 1937; died 1946)
Children
3
Dame Gladys Constance Cooper, DBE (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.
Dame Gladys Constance Cooper, DBE (18 December 1888 – 17 November 1971) was an English actress, theatrical manager and producer, whose career spanned...
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late 1960s to early 1980s included parts in His, Hers and Theirs with GladysCooper; The Pleasure of His Company with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; Peter Pan...
married the actress GladysCooper, but divorced her in 1936. Sir Neville and Lady Pearson had one daughter, Sally Pearson, a.k.a. Sally Cooper, who was married...
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