page_title: Gladys Cooper
section_title: Private life and final years
hierarchical_section_title: Gladys Cooper / Private life and final years
caption_attribution_description: English: Gladys Cooper and children
context_page_description: Dame Gladys Constance Cooper, DBE was an English actress whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television.
  As a teenager in Edwardian musical comedy and pantomime, she starred in dramatic roles and silent films before the First World War. She managed the Playhouse Theatre from 1917 to 1933, where she played many roles. From the early 1920s Cooper won praise in plays by W. Somerset Maugham and others.
  In the 1930s she starred steadily in productions both in London's West End and on Broadway. Moving to Hollywood in 1940, Cooper found success in a variety of character roles. She received three Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress, for performances in The Song of Bernadette, My Fair Lady and, most famously, Now, Voyager. Throughout the 1950s and 60s she worked both on stage and on screen, continuing to star on stage until her last year.
context_section_description: Cooper was married three times.
  Captain Herbert Buckmaster (1908–1921). The couple had two children: Joan (1910–2005), who was married to the actor Robert Morley, and John Rodney (1915–1983).
  Sir Neville Pearson (1927–1936). Sir Neville and Lady Pearson had one daughter, Sally Pearson, aka Sally Cooper, who was married (1961–1986) to actor Robert Hardy.
  Philip Merivale (1937–1946), a fellow actor. The couple lived for many years in Santa Monica, California as permanent resident aliens. He died at age 59 from a heart ailment. Her stepson from this marriage was John Merivale.
  She lived mostly in England in her final years and died from pneumonia at the age of 82 in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
caption: Cooper and children
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