
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 played many roles. Beginning in the early 1920s, Cooper was winning praise in plays by W. Somerset Maugham and others. In the 1930s, she was starring steadily both in the West End and on Broadway. Moving to Hollywood in 1940, Cooper found success in a variety of character roles; she was nominated for three Academy Awards, the last one as Mrs. Higgins in My Fair Lady (1964). Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, she mixed her stage and film careers, continuing to star on stage until her last year.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.537 |
Birthday | 1888-12-18 |
Place of Birth | Chiswick, England, UK |
Also Known As | Dame Gladys Cooper, |

1940

Rebecca
7.89/1788
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died myste...
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Rebecca

1963

The List of Adrian Messenger
6.6/83
Adrian Messenger, a famous writer, asks his friend Anthony Gethryn, a former British agent, to help him investigate the whereabouts of the people who...
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The List of Adrian Messenger

1967

The Happiest Millionaire
6.806/36
A happy and unbelievably lucky young Irish immigrant, John Lawless, lands a job as the butler of an unconventional millionaire, Biddle. His daughter,...
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The Happiest Millionaire

1942

Now, Voyager
7.3/204
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
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Now, Voyager

1948

The Pirate
6.4/94
A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and...
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The Pirate

1941

The Black Cat
6.5/39
Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first.
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The Black Cat

1958

Separate Tables
6.9/112
The lives of a disparate group of unfulfilled people converge at a small, seaside English hotel in this adaptation of Terence Rattigan's classic play.
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Separate Tables

1949

The Secret Garden
7.1/32
When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those she...
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The Secret Garden

1943

The Song of Bernadette
7/111
In 1858 Lourdes, France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anythi...
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The Song of Bernadette

1941

That Hamilton Woman
7.085/82
The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her ris...
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That Hamilton Woman

1945

The Valley of Decision
7.3/25
Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the we...
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The Valley of Decision

1941

The Gay Falcon
6.2/22
Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along...
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The Gay Falcon

1949

Madame Bovary
6.7/48
A frivolous country girl married to a naïve small-town doctor goes down the path of destruction when she grows tired of her limited social status.
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Madame Bovary

1943

Mr. Lucky
6.9/39
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
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Mr. Lucky

1947

The Bishop's Wife
7/245
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The Bishop's Wife

1944

Mrs. Parkington
6.139/18
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Mrs. Parkington

1944

The White Cliffs of Dover
6.7/21
American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whir...
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The White Cliffs of Dover

1951

Thunder on the Hill
6.5/30
Sister Mary presides over a convent where a convicted murderess, who is being escorted to Death Row, is stranded by bad weather. She is slowly becomin...
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Thunder on the Hill

1946

Beware of Pity
6.5/6
A paraplegic baroness mistakes a man's pity for love - and tragedy ensues.
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Beware of Pity

1946

The Green Years
6.5/14
An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather stan...
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The Green Years

1945

Love Letters
6.409/22
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Love Letters

1947

Green Dolphin Street
6.1/17
Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William. Sophie...
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Green Dolphin Street

1942

This Above All
6.639/18
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with t...
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This Above All

1946

The Cockeyed Miracle
6.7/3
A 60-ish Maine shipbuilder (Frank Morgan) and his 30-ish father (Keenan Wynn) provide for their family from the hereafter.
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The Cockeyed Miracle

1952

At Sword's Point
4.8/11
France, 1648: Richelieu and Louis XIII are dead, the new king is a minor, and the Duc de Lavalle is in virtually open rebellion, scheming to seize pow...
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At Sword's Point

1969

A Nice Girl Like Me
0/0
Candy is a fetching unwed young lady with a penchant for pregnancy. Her adventures begin when she leaves her sheltered boarding school background for...
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A Nice Girl Like Me

1955

The Man Who Loved Redheads
5.1/6
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The Man Who Loved Redheads

1940

Kitty Foyle
6.535/43
A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.
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Kitty Foyle

1964

My Fair Lady
7.5/1319
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
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My Fair Lady

1922

The Bohemian Girl
6.6/5
A Polish officer posing as a gypsy loves a gypsy girl who is really the count's daughter.
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The Bohemian Girl

1962

Always on Sunday
5/1
This spoof of Never on Sunday was the first film made by a group of gay men who frequented a Los Angeles gay bar, The Brownstone, for Sunday brunch. R...
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Always on Sunday

1963

Pygmalion
0/0
Can Professor Higgins transform cockney flower girl Eliza Dolittle into a lady by teaching her to speak properly?
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Pygmalion

1948

Homecoming
7/9
Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it's "the thing to do" rather than d...
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Homecoming

1934

The Iron Duke
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The life and times of the Duke of Wellington
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The Iron Duke

1943

Princess O'Rourke
6.4/19
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
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Princess O'Rourke

1942

Eagle Squadron
0/0
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
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Eagle Squadron

1943

Forever and a Day
7.4/10
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble,...
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Forever and a Day

1923

Bonnie Prince Charlie
0/0
In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and resto...
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Bonnie Prince Charlie

1917

Masks and Faces
4.5/2
An actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife.
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Masks and Faces

1976

The Switch
0/0
Our heroes find themselves at the famed Cannes Film Festival to help foil a plot to murder a former American union boss cum government witness, Kyle S...
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1917

The Sorrows Of Satan
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The Sorrows of Satan is a 1917 British silent fantasy film directed by Alexander Butler and starring Gladys Cooper, Owen Nares and Cecil Humphreys. Ma...
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