![]() ![]() It was ironic that writer Aldous Huxley criticized her performance in "Home and Beauty" as "too impassive, too statuesque, playing all the time as if she were Galatea, newly unpetrified and still unused to the ways of the living world." On the other hand, Maugham himself applauded her for "turning herself from an indifferent actress (at the start of her career) to an extremely competent one". Somerset Maugham's "Home and Beauty" in London in 1919 and triumphed in her 1922 appearance in Arthur Wing Pinero's "The Second Mrs. It was actually about this time that she achieved major stage actress success. She was also doing plays, some producing of her own, and a few more films in the early 1920s. ![]() She took sole control from 1927 until other stage commitments in 1933. This was a decidedly new direction for a woman of the period. But in the latter year she joined Frank Curzon to co-manage the Playhouse Theatre. ![]() She had roles in a few other movies in 19. In the meantime she sampled the early British silent film industry starting in 1913 with The Eleventh Commandment (1913). During World War I her popularity grew into something of pin-up fad for the British military. From the craze for post cards with photos of actors - that ensued between about 18 - Cooper became a popular subject of maidenly beauty with scenes as Juliet and many others. Her more concerted stage work began in 1911 in a production of Oscar Wilde's comedy "The Importance of Being Ernest" which was followed quickly with other roles. She came to the London stage in 1906 in "The Belle of Mayfair", and in 1907 took a departure from the legitimate stage to become a member of Frank Curzon's famous Gaiety Girls chorus entertainments at The Gaiety theater. She wanted to become an actress and started on that road in 1905 after being discovered by Seymour Hicks to tour with his company in "Bluebell in Fairyland". As a child she was very striking and was used as a photographic model beginning at six years old. Gladys Cooper was the daughter of journalist William Frederick Cooper and his wife Mabel Barnett. ![]()
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