1968 film bio of gertrude lawrence
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Gertrude Lawrence
English actress, singer, dancer and musical comedy performer (1898–1952)
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| Born | Gertrude Alice Dagmar Klasen[1] (1898-07-04)4 July 1898 London, England |
| Died | 6 September 1952(1952-09-06) (aged 54) New York City, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts |
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| Years active | 1916–1952 |
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Gertrude Lawrence (4 July 1898 – 6 September 1952) was an English actress, singer, dancer and musical comedy performer known for her stage appearances in the West End of London and on Broadway in New York.
Early life
[edit]Lawrence was born in 1898 in Newington, London of English and Danish descent. Her name at birth was registered as Gertrude Alice Dagmar Klasen.[2] Other variants of her birth name include Alexandra Dagmar Lawrence-Klasen,[3] and Gertrude Alexandra Dagmar Klasen.[2][4]
Her father was a basso profondo who performed under the name Arthur Lawrence. His heavy drinking led her mother Alice to leave him soon after Gertrude's bir
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Even before The Sound of Music started breaking box-office records, director Robert Wise and Producer Saul Chaplin were making plans to re-team with its leading lady Julie Andrews. Another musical biopic, this one about Gertrude Lawrence, seemed the ideal vehicle. Like Andrews, Lawrence started performing in British Music Halls before becoming a star on the West End and Broadway. The two even shared success portraying Eliza Doolittle on stage. Add to this Lawrence's long-term friendship with Noël Coward, her role in Rogers and Hammerstein’s ‘The King and I’, and her introduction of such songs as Gershwin’s ‘Someone to Watch Over Me’, and the prospects for another musical triumph looked promising.
After an overture of some of Lawrence’s greatest hits, a newsreel depicting her early life is interrupted by the actress disputing its veracity. Assured that the newsreel will not be shown unless it meets with her approval, the screening resumes interspersed with Lawrence’s recollection of what really happened. There’s an unromantic look back at her Music Hall days, her shameless upstaging while a chorus girl and her reticence to settle down with one of her many suitors. Yet is her spendthrift ways that lands her
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1968 disc by Parliamentarian Wise
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Plot
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