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The Return of Gladys Cooper (Photoshop Restoration)

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Channel: JudeMaris · 2011 · Film & Animation

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Though this actress's success is more well known in her later life through Hollywood films such as The Secret Garden, The Song of Bernadette, and My Fair Lady, Gladys, in her youth, was also a prized photography model owing to her classically beautiful features which had already blossomed by the time she was six years old.

Theater critics scorned her acting style as being "too impassive" or "too statuesque", traits which only seemed to enhance her appeal and stage presence as time went on. Many of her roles were of a powerful, aristocratic nature as a result, which she played to the fullest as Rex Harrison's onscreen mother Mrs. Higgins in the 1964 film "My Fair Lady" with Audrey Hepburn.

Gladys Cooper died a year after her last performance on November 17, 1971 at the age of 82.

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