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Gladys Boot
British actress (1890–1964) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gladys Boot (1890 – 16 October 1964), was a British actress.[1][2]
She studied acting privately with Elsie Fogerty, and made her stage debut in Newcastle in 1940 in Quiet Wedding; and in London at Wyndham's Theatre the following year in Quiet Weekend. In this, she appeared in over 1,000 performances, including overseas tours and for the forces, 1943-44. After the war, theatre work included as leading lady with the Liverpool Playhouse, and on tour and on Broadway in Yes M'Lord (1949); and again on tour as Mrs Higgins in Shaw's Pygmalion in 1951.[3][4][5]
She died on 16 October 1964, in Chelsea, London.[2]
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Selected filmography
- Murder Reported (1957) as Dorothy
- Harry Black (1958), as Mrs. Tanner
- Virgin Island (1958), as Mrs. Carruthers
- Your Money or Your Wife (1960), as Mrs. Compton Chamberlain
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