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 Charles Buchel (Karl August Büchel)
oil on canvas, 1920s?
NPG 5564
by Curtis Moffat
chlorobromide print, 1925
NPG P430
Dame Gladys Cooper as Eva in 'The Girls of Gottenberg'
by Bassano Ltd, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
hand-coloured postcard print, 1907
NPG x193697
by Foulsham & Banfield, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
bromide postcard print, late 1900s
NPG x126415
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1909
NPG x127666
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1909
NPG x127669
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1909
NPG x127670
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1909
NPG x127672
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1909
NPG x127673
by Rita Martin, published by J. Beagles & Co
bromide postcard print, 1909
NPG x131496
by Rita Martin, published by J. Beagles & Co
bromide postcard print, 1909
NPG x131497
by Rita Martin, published by J. Beagles & Co
bromide postcard print, 1909
NPG x131498
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1910
NPG x127667
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1910
NPG x127668
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1910
NPG x127671
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1910
NPG x127674
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1910
NPG x127675
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1910
NPG x127676
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1910
NPG x127677
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1910
NPG x127678
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1910
NPG x127679
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1910
NPG x127680
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1910
NPG x127681
by Rita Martin, published by J. Beagles & Co
bromide postcard print, 1910
NPG x131499
by Rita Martin, published by J. Beagles & Co
bromide postcard print, 1910
NPG x131500
by Rita Martin, published by J. Beagles & Co
bromide postcard print, 1910
NPG x131501
by Rita Martin, published by J. Beagles & Co
bromide postcard print, 1910
NPG x131502
by Rita Martin, published by J. Beagles & Co
bromide postcard print, 1910
NPG x131503
by Rita Martin, published by J. Beagles & Co
bromide postcard print, 1910
NPG x131504
by Rita Martin, published by J. Beagles & Co
bromide postcard print, 1910
NPG x131505
by Rita Martin, published by J. Beagles & Co
bromide postcard print, 1910
NPG x131506
by Rita Martin, published by J. Beagles & Co
bromide postcard print, 1910
NPG x131507
by Rita Martin, published by J. Beagles & Co
bromide postcard print, 1910
NPG x131508
by Rita Martin, published by J. Beagles & Co
bromide postcard print, 1910
NPG x131509
by Rita Martin, published by J. Beagles & Co
bromide postcard print, 1910
NPG x131510
by Rita Martin, published by J. Beagles & Co
bromide postcard print, 1910
NPG x131511
by Rita Martin, published by J. Beagles & Co
bromide postcard print, 1910
NPG x131512
by Rita Martin, published by J. Beagles & Co
bromide postcard print, 1910
NPG x131513
by Rita Martin, published by J. Beagles & Co
bromide postcard print, 1910
NPG x131514
by Rita Martin, published by J. Beagles & Co
bromide postcard print, 1910
NPG x131515
by Rita Martin, published by J. Beagles & Co
bromide postcard print, 1910
NPG x131516
by Rita Martin, published by J. Beagles & Co
bromide postcard print, 1910
NPG x131517
by Rita Martin, published by J. Beagles & Co
bromide postcard print, 1910
NPG x131518
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, circa 1910
NPG x18900
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, circa 1910
NPG x18901
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, circa 1910
NPG x18902
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1910
NPG x81004
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate negative, 1910
NPG x81005
by Claude Harris
vintage bromide print, 1910s-1920s
NPG x9075
probably by Bassano Ltd, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
hand-coloured matte bromide postcard print, 1910
NPG Ax160300
by Rita Martin, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
hand-coloured matte bromide postcard print, 1910
NPG Ax160302
by Sarony & Co
hand-coloured matte bromide postcard print, 1910
NPG Ax160301
by Sarony & Co
hand-coloured bromide postcard print, circa 1910
NPG x137474
by Bassano Ltd, published by Aristophot Co Ltd
hand-coloured bromide postcard print, 1910s
NPG x193701
Dame Gladys Cooper; Joan Morley (née Buckmaster)
by Bassano Ltd, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
hand-coloured bromide postcard print, 1910s
NPG x193706
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 4 October 1912
NPG x18791
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 4 October 1912
NPG x18792
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 4 October 1912
NPG x18793
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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