Dame Gladys Cooper
(1888-1971), ActressSitter in 174 portraits
A great British figure of twentieth-century theatre, Cooper started her career as a chorus girl in The Girls of Gottenberg (1907) with George Edwardes's company at the Gaiety theatre in London, returning the following year as a 'travelling newspaper beauty' in Havana. She was the most popular picture-postcard beauty of the First World War. In 1916, she began to act at the Playhouse, later becoming its manager - one of few women before the Second World War to manage a West End theatre. In 1940, a small role in Hitchcock's Rebecca led to a thirty-year Hollywood career. Notable film successes include Now, Voyager (1942), The Song of Bernadette (1943) and My Fair Lady (1964). She was created a Dame in 1967.
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 4 October 1912
NPG x18794
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 4 October 1912
NPG x18795
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1912
NPG x18912
by Bassano Ltd
postcard print, (12 July 1912)
NPG x27515
by Rita Martin
sepia-toned bromide print on card mount, circa 1912
NPG x68976
by Bassano Ltd, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
hand-coloured bromide postcard print, 12 July 1912
NPG x193698
by Bassano Ltd
bromide postcard print, 12 July 1912
NPG x193699
by Bassano Ltd
hand-coloured bromide postcard print, 12 July 1912
NPG x193700
by Bassano Ltd, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
bromide postcard print, 12 July 1912
NPG x193702
by Bassano Ltd, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
bromide postcard print, 12 July 1912
NPG x193704
by Bassano Ltd, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
bromide postcard print, 12 July 1912
NPG x193705
John E. Vedrenne; Dame Gladys Cooper; Dennis Eadie
by Foulsham & Banfield, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
postcard print, circa 1912
NPG x201022
by Bassano Ltd
bromide print, 12 July 1912
NPG x83032
by Bassano Ltd
bromide print, 12 July 1912
NPG x83033
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 12 July 1912
NPG x102102
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 12 July 1912
NPG x102100
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 12 July 1912
NPG x102099
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 12 July 1912
NPG x102098
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 12 July 1912
NPG x102097
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 12 July 1912
NPG x102096
Related People
- John Rodney Buckmaster (son)
- Philip Merivale (husband)
- Joan Morley (née Buckmaster) (daughter)
- Sheridan Morley (grandson)
- Sir Neville Arthur Pearson, 2nd Bt (husband)
- Sally Pearson (née Cooper) (daughter)
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