Gladys cooper actress biography
Gladys cooper actress biography
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Cooper, Gladys (1888–1971)
English actress-manager and musical-comedy star, best known for her roles in drawing-room comedy, who was the most popular actress on the London stage by 1914 and darling of British "Tommies" as they went into battle in the First World War. Name variations: Dame Gladys Cooper.
Born Gladys Constance Cooper in Lewisham, England, on December 18, 1888 (some sources erroneously cite 1890); died at her home in Henley-on-Thames on November 17, 1971; daughter of Charles William Frederick Cooper (a journalist who founded The Epicure magazine) and Mabel Barnett Cooper; married Henry Buckmaster (an actor), on December 12, 1908 (divorced 1922); married Sir Neville Charles Pearson (a magazine editor and publisher), on June 15, 1928 (divorced, October 1936); married Philip Merivale (an actor), on April 30, 1937 (died 1946); children: (first marriage) John Buckmaster (an actor) and Joan Buckmaster Morley (who married the popular character actor Robert Morley); (se