| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Lawrence, Gertrude |
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| 1902?–1952, English actress and singer. Her original name was Gertrud Alexandra Dagmar Lawrence-Klasen. Performing on the musical stage from childhood, Lawrence made her New York debut (1924) in Charlot’s Revue, together with Beatrice Lillie. A childhood friend of Noel Coward, she appeared with him in his Private Lives (1931) and Tonight at 8:30 (1936). Her charm and magnetic personality in Susan and God (1937) and in such musicals as Lady in the Dark (1941) and The King and I (1951) endeared her to the public. In 1950 she played Amanda in a film version of The Glass Menagerie. | 1 | | See her memoirs, A Star Danced (1945); biography by her husband, R. S. Aldrich (1955). | 2 |
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