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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 ...
Lilian Ridgway (24 March 1939 – 5 March 2022), known professionally as Lynda Baron, was an English actress and singer.She is known for having played Nurse Gladys Emmanuel in the BBC sitcom Open All Hours (1976–1985) and its sequel, Still Open All Hours (2013–2016), Auntie Mabel in the award-winning children's series Come Outside (1993–1997), and the part of Linda Clarke in EastEnders ...
Gladys Pearl Monroe (May 27, 1902 – March 11, 1984), also known as Gladys Pearl Monroe Baker Mortensen Eley, was the mother of American actress Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson). Born in Mexico, Baker grew up in the Los Angeles metro area. Her father died in 1909 after suffering from mental illness and alcoholism.
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 ...
Belita was born at Nether Wallop, Hampshire, [1] to Major William Jepson-Turner and wife Gladys Olive Lyne-Stivens. [2] She skated (as Belita Jepson-Turner) for the United Kingdom in the 1936 Winter Olympics, where she was placed 16th in the singles, then her career turned towards Hollywood. She had classical Russian ballet training which ...
Darrin Stephens, son of Frank and Phyllis Stephens, [2] (originally Dick York, seasons 1–5; later Dick Sargent, seasons 6–8) is a mortal married to Samantha.He did not know she was a witch until she told him after they got married, and tries to dissuade her from using witchcraft as much as possible, preferring to live an ordinary, mortal life.
Russell, who was a sister of Patrick Henry and Annie Henry Christian, [1] was born in Hanover County, Virginia, to John Henry and Sarah Winston.In 1776 she married Gen. William Campbell (1745–1781), the commander of the American forces that defeated the British at the Battle of King's Mountain in 1780; this was the turning point of the American Revolution.