Dame Gladys Constance Cooper DBE (18 December 1888 – 17 November 1971) was an English actress.
Cooper was born in Chiswick, London, England, one of the three daughters of Charles William Frederick Cooper by his marriage to Mabel Barnett.
She made her stage début in 1905 touring with Seymour Hicks in his musical Bluebell in Fairyland. The young beauty was also a popular photography model. In 1906, she appeared in London in The Belle of Mayfair, an...
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Dame Gladys Constance Cooper DBE (18 December 1888 – 17 November 1971) was an English actress.
Cooper was born in Chiswick, London, England, one of the three daughters of Charles William Frederick Cooper by his marriage to Mabel Barnett.
She made her stage début in 1905 touring with Seymour Hicks in his musical Bluebell in Fairyland. The young beauty was also a popular photography model. In 1906, she appeared in London in The Belle of Mayfair, and the following year she became a chorus girl at the Gaiety Theatre, London. In 1911, she appeared in a production of The Importance of Being Earnest, and in 1913 she appeared in her first film, The Eleventh Commandment. In addition, in 1917, Cooper became co-manager, with Frank Curzon, of the Playhouse Theatre, taking over sole control from 1927 until she left in 1933.
Cooper appeared in W. Somerset Maugham's Home and Beauty in London in 1919. It was not until 1922, however, that she found major critical success, in Arthur Wing Pinero's The...
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