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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 ...
Gladys George (born Gladys Clare Evans; September 13, 1904 – December 8, 1954) was an American actress of stage and screen.Though nominated for an Academy Award for her leading role in Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936), she spent most of her career in supporting roles in films such as Marie Antoinette (1938), The Roaring Twenties (1939), The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Best Years of Our ...
In the mid-1920s, she moved to New York City and adopted the stage name Madame Goldye Steiner. [2] In 1924, Steiner debuted as a performer of khazones, or cantorial music. [1] According to 2020 research by Henry Sapoznik, [3] she was the only African American woman vocalist performing in the "golden age" of European Jewish liturgical chazzanus ...
Gladys Deacon in 1901, by Giovanni Boldini Deacon portrayed by John Singer Sargent. Gladys Marie Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (née Deacon; 7 February 1881 – 13 October 1977) was a French American aristocrat and socialite. She was the mistress and later the second wife of Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough.
Gladys May Aylward (24 February 1902 – 3 January 1970) was a British-born evangelical Christian missionary to China, whose story was told in the book The Small Woman: The Heroic Story of Gladys Aylward, by Alan Burgess, published in 1957. The book served as the basis for the film The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, starring Ingrid Bergman, in 1958.
Alice Pearce (October 16, 1917 – March 3, 1966) was an American actress. She was brought to Hollywood by Gene Kelly to reprise her Broadway performance in the film version of On the Town (1949). Pearce played comedic supporting roles in several films before being cast as nosy neighbor Gladys Kravitz in the television sitcom Bewitched in 1964.
The film stars Gladys George, Arline Judge, John Howard, Dudley Digges, Harry Carey, and Isabel Jewell. Valiant Is the Word for Carrie was theatrically released in the United States on October 2, 1936, by Paramount Pictures. The film earned George her first and only Academy Award nomination in her career for her portrayal of the title character.
The Marchioness of Ripon by Adolf de Meyer,1910. Constance Gwladys Robinson, Marchioness of Ripon (22 April 1859 – 28 October 1917 [1]), was a British patron of the arts.. She was a close friend of Oscar Wilde, who dedicated his play A Woman of No Importance to her; other celebrated friends included Nellie Melba, whose success in London was largely due to Lady Ripon's support, Nijinsky and ...