
Gladys Cooper
Dame Gladys Constance Cooper, DBE (18 December 1888 – 17 November 1971) was an English actress whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television. Beginning on the stage as a teenager in Edwardian musical comedy and pantomime, she was starring in dramatic roles and silent films by World War I. She also became a manager of the Playhouse Theatre from 1917 to 1933, where she...
Dame Gladys Constance Cooper, DBE (18 December 1888 – 17 November 1971) was an English actress whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television. Beginning on the stage as a teenager in Edwardian musical comedy and pantomime, she was starring in dramatic roles and silent films by World War I. She also became a manager of the Playhouse Theatre from 1917 to 1933, where she...
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The Switch
as Grand Duchess Ozerov
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
as Mrs. Ternan
A Nice Girl Like Me
as Aunt Mary
The Happiest Millionaire
as Aunt Mary Drexel
My Fair Lady
as Mrs. Higgins
The List of Adrian Messenger
as Mrs. Karoudjian
Pygmalion
as Mrs. Higgins
Separate Tables
as Mrs. Railton-Bell
The Mystery of Thirteen
as Mrs. Palmer
Circle of the Day
as Mrs. Millet
The Man Who Loved Redheads
as Lady Binfield
At Sword's Point
as Queen Anne
Thunder on the Hill
as Mother Superior
Madame Bovary
as Madame Dupuis
The Secret Garden
as Mrs. Medlock
The Pirate
as Aunt Inez
Homecoming
as Mrs. Kirby
The Bishop's Wife
as Mrs. Hamilton
Green Dolphin Street
as Sophie Patourel
The Cockeyed Miracle
as Amy Griggs
Beware of Pity
as Mrs. Klara Condor
The Green Years
as Grandma Leckie
Love Letters
as Beatrice Remington
The Valley of Decision
as Clarissa Scott
Mrs. Parkington
as Alice, Dutchess de Brancourt
The White Cliffs of Dover
as Jean Ashwood
The Song of Bernadette
as Sister Marie Therese Vauzous
Princess O'Rourke
as Miss Haskell
Mr. Lucky
as Captain Veronica Steadman
Forever and a Day
as Mrs. Barringer