Gladys cooper5/4/2023 And Lucille Watson, before she was mother to pretty much everyone, including Norma Shearer ( The Women), Robert Taylor ( Waterloo Bridge), James Stewart ( Made for Each Other), and Carole Lombard ( Mr. Here’s Cathleen Nesbitt, around the time she was known as doomed poet Rupert Brooke’s lover, rather than as Joseph Cotten’s mother in The Farmer’s Daughter and Cary Grant’s heartbreaking “nanou” in An Affair to Remember. Here’s Mary Boland, before she barreled through the Old West in Ruggles of Red Gap, elbowed her daughters up the social ladder in Pride and Prejudice and trilled her way through a husband or two in The Women (“L’amour, l’amour!”). She also adorned greeting cards for just about every occasion.Īnd here’s Collinge in 1920 with a baby-faced Leslie Howard, on Broadway in Just Suppose-which co-starred Frederick Kerr, who’d go on to play the Baron in Frankenstein.Īll of this got me thinking: What about some of the other lovely ladies who became known mostly as doting mothers, dowagers, drudges and daffy old dames? Here are a few of them, peering out from their younger years. In fact Cooper-who was actually an exceedingly kind person when she wasn’t making everyone’s life a living hell on screen-was pretty much the Betty Grable of The Great War, the favorite pin-up girl of British soldiers across Europe. But decades before all that, they were, well, hotties. Winter had only a brief film career, but Cooper, of course, went on to become everyone’s favorite battleaxe in films including Now, Voyager, Kitty Foyle and The Bishop’s Wife, and Collinge played the perfect mother (and too-trusting sister) in Shadow of a Doubt. ![]() Printed in 1910, it features Jessie Winter (as “Modesty”), Gladys Cooper (as “Beauty in Everywoman”) and Patricia Collinge (as “Youth”). Recently I came across this old British postcard, which I bought years ago, back when there were bookstores. TINTYPE TUESDAY: Gladys Cooper Was a Pin-Up Girl - And Other Pix That May Surprise You!
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