Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold (; 9 December 189724 May 1987) was an English actress known for her sharp-tongued, eccentric character. Her signature drawling, deep voice was a result of nodules on her vocal cords she developed in the 1920s and early 1930s. After a successful career as a child actress, she established herself on the stage as an adult, playing in comedy, drama and experimental theatre, and radio broadcasting. She found her milieu in revue, which she played from the 1930s to the 1950s, co-starring several times with the English actress Hermione Baddeley. Later she played formidable elderly characters in such films and stage musicals as '' Gigi'' (1958), '' Bell, Book and Candle'' (1958), ''

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'' (1962) and '' A Little Night Music'' (1973). From the early 1950s Gingold lived and made her career mostly in the U.S. Her American stage work ranged from '' John Murray Anderson's Almanac'' (1953) to '' Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad'' (1963), the latter of which she also played in London. She became a well known guest on television talk shows. She made further appearances in revue and toured in plays and musicals until an accident ended her performing career in 1977.

Biography

Early years

Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold was born in Carlton Hill,

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, James Gingold, and his wife, Kate Frances (née Walter). Her paternal grandparents were the Ottoman-born British subject, Moritz "Maurice" Gingold, a London stockbroker, and his Austrian-born wife, Hermine, after whom Hermione was named (Gingold mentions in her autobiography that her mother might have got 'Hermione' from Shakespeare's play ''

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'', which she was reading shortly before her birth). On her father's side, she was descended from Solomon Sulzer, a synagogue cantor and Jewish liturgical composer in Vienna. James felt that religion was something children needed to decide on for themselves, and Gingold grew up with no particular religious beliefs.Gingold, p. 7 Gingold's professional début was in 1908 when she had just turned 11. She played the herald in

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's production of ''Pinkie and the Fairies'' by W. Graham Robertson, in a cast including

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, Frederick Volpe, Marie Löhr and Viola Tree."At the Play: His Majesty's Pinkie and the Fairies", ''

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''. She attended Rosina Filippi's stage school in London. In 1911, she was cast in the original production of ''

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'' which opened to very good reviews on 21 December 1911. On 10 December 1912, the day after her 15th birthday, Gingold played Cassandra in William Poel's production of ''

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'' at the King's Hall,

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, with Esmé Percy as Troilus and

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as Cressida. The following year she appeared in a musical production, ''The Marriage Market'', in a small role in a cast that included

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. In 1914, she played Jessica in ''

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'' at the

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. In 1918, Gingold married the publisher Michael Joseph, with whom she had two sons, the younger of whom,

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, became a pioneer of theatre in the round in Britain.

1920 to 1948

Gingold's adult stage career was slow to take off. She played Liza in ''If'' at the Ambassador's in May 1921, and the Old Woman in

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'' produced by Sir Charles Hawtrey at the Criterion in August 1922.Morley, pp. 143–144 In 1926 Gingold was divorced from Joseph. Later in the same year she married the writer and lyricist

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, whom she divorced in 1945. She underwent a vocal crisis in the late 1920s and early 1930s: she had hitherto described herself as "Shakespearian and soprano" but nodules on her vocal cords brought a drastic drop in pitch, about which she commented, "One morning it was Mozart and the next 'Old Man River'". The critic

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described her voice as "powdered glass in deep syrup". During this period she broadcast frequently for the BBC and established herself at the experimental theatre-club the

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in London, first as a serious actress and later in the genre for which she became famous,

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'' it was in ''Spread It Abroad'' (1936) a revue at another theatre, the

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, with material by Herbert Farjeon that she truly found her milieu."Obituary – Hermione Gingold – Kindly malice in wonderland", ''The Times'', 25 May 1987, p. 14 In the 10 years from 1938, Gingold concentrated on revue, appearing in nine productions in the West End. The first four were ''The Gate Revue'' (transferred from the Gate to the Ambassadors, 1939), ''Swinging the Gate'' (1940), ''Rise Above It'' (1941) and ''Sky High'' (1942). During this period she and Hermione Baddeley established a stage partnership of what ''The Times'' called "briskly sustained mock-rivalry". In June 1943 she opened in a revue at the Ambassadors, '' Sweet and Low'', which was continually revised and refreshed over a run of almost six years, first as ''Sweeter and Lower'' and then ''Sweetest and Lowest''. In her sketches she tended, as the writer of the shows,

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, recalled, to portray "grotesque and usually unfortunate ladies of dubious age and occasionally, morals; the unhappy female painted by Picasso who found herself lumbered with an extra limb or two … the even less fortunate female who, after years of playing the cello in Palm Court orchestras, ended up bow-legged beyond belief". In a biographical sketch, Ned Sherrin writes "Gingold became a special attraction for American soldiers and 'Thanks, Yanks' was one of her most appropriate numbers. During the astringent, name-dropping 'Sweet' series, she played 1,676 performances, before 800,000 people, negotiating 17,010 costume changes".

Postwar

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Gingold's first new revue after the war was ''Slings and Arrows'' at the

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in 1948. She was praised, but the material was judged inferior to that of her earlier shows. She appeared in cameo roles in British films, of which Sherrin singles out ''

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'' (1952), in which she played the formidable schoolmistress, Miss Tompkins. Gingold became well known to BBC radio audiences in "Mrs Doom's Diary" in the weekly show ''Home at Eight''; this was a parody of the radio soap opera '' Mrs Dale's Diary'' in the manner of the Addams Family with Gingold as Drusilla Doom and Alfred Marks as her sepulchral husband. Gingold and Baddeley co-starred in a

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double bill in November 1949, presenting '' Fumed Oak'' and '' Fallen Angels''. Reviews were poor, and Coward thought the performances crude and overdone, but the production was a box-office success, running until August the following year. C7aif51sd9dj9fs5

Between 1951 and 1969 Gingold worked mostly in the US. Her first engagement there was at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts in ''It's About Time,'' a revue that incorporated some of her London material. In December 1953, she opened in '' John Murray Anderson's Almanac'' which made her an instant Broadway success and for which she won the Donaldson Award in 1954. She also became a regular guest on talk shows. In 1951 she cited as her hobbies; 'Interior decoration' and 'collecting china'. Gingold continued to make films. In 1956 she played a London "sporting lady" in '' Around the World in 80 Days'', and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1958 film '' Gigi'' playing Madame Alvarez, Gigi's loving grandmother. In the film, she sang "I Remember It Well" with

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. She said "It was my first American film and I was very nervous." Chevalier put her at ease. "I had to sing, and I hadn't got a great voice, but with him, I felt the greatest prima donna in the world." Gingold followed this with another hit film '' Bell, Book and Candle'', also 1958, in which her role was Mrs Bianca De Pass. She played the haughty wife, Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn, of River City Mayor George Shinn, played by character actor Paul Ford, in ''

'' (1962) starring Robert Preston and

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. In October 1963, Gingold opened in

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's '' Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad'', playing a monstrously possessive mother driving her son crazy. She played the role in the London production in 1965. Reviewing the latter, and noting that the first night had been greeted with cheering at the end, the critic Philip Hope-Wallace wrote:

Last years

In 1972, she was among the guests in David Winters' musical

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'', starring

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, and

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. Gingold was a member of the original 1973 Broadway cast of

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's '' A Little Night Music'' in the role of the elderly Mme. Armfeldt, a former

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wrote of her performance, "Hermione Gingold is immeasurably grande dame as the almost Proustian hostess (I haven't loved her so much since she sang about the Borgia orgies 30 years ago)." When the production transferred to London in 1975 Gingold reprised the role, and later played it in the film version of the musical (1977). At the age of 77, Gingold made her operatic début, joining the

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to play the spoken role of the Duchess of Crackenthorp in Donizetti's '' La fille du régiment'' in 1975. In 1977 she took over the narrator's role in ''

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'' on Broadway. After the New York run, the show toured the U.S. In Kansas City, the 79-year-old Gingold suffered an accident that broke her knee and dislocated her arm; this brought her performing career to an end. Still, she appeared in a 1980s

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commercial for its drink Coca Goya Colada while lounging on a

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, shaking the two cans like

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Death

Gingold died from heart problems and pneumonia at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan on 24 May 1987, aged 89.Saxon, Wolfgang
"Hermione Gingold, English Actress, Dies At 89"
''The New York Times'', 25 May 1987. She is interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.

Legacy

Gingold's autobiography, ''How to Grow Old Disgracefully'', was published posthumously in 1988. It was published in installments: ''The World Is Square'' (1946), ''My Own Unaided Work'' (1952) and ''Sirens Should Be Seen and Not Heard'' (1963). She also wrote a play titled ''Abracadabra'' and contributed original material to the many revues in which she performed. The

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in New York is a company devoted to producing plays about human rights. It was founded by David Staller, a great friend of Gingold for many years, as a tribute to her. They specialise in presenting the works of Bernard Shaw and are the first group to present all of Shaw's 65 plays.Gingold Theatrical Group website
accessed 1 October 2013

Screen performances

Film

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'' (1931) * ''

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'' (1936) * '' Someone at the Door'' (1936) - Lizzie Appleby * '' Merry Comes to Town'' (1937) - Ida Witherspoon * ''

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'' (1938) - Mrs. Wilson * '' The Butler's Dilemma'' (1943) - Aunt Sophie * ''

'' (1952) - Miss Tompkins * ''

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'' (1953) - Queenie * ''

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'' (1953) - Spinster * '' Around the World in 80 Days'' (1956) - Sporting Lady * '' Gigi'' (1958) - Madame Alvarez * '' Bell, Book and Candle'' (1958) - Bianca de Passe * ''

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'' (1961) - Lilly Harris * ''

'' (1962) - Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn * '' Gay Purr-ee'' (1962) - voice of Mme. Rubens-Chatte * ''

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'' (1964, scenes deleted) * ''

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'' (1964) - Miss Grimshaw * ''

Harvey Middleman, Fireman ''Harvey Middleman, Fireman'' is a 1965 American comedy film written and directed by Ernest Pintoff. It is Pintoff's first feature film, having previously only made shorts. The film follows the story of a fireman named Harvey Middleman who lives ...

'' (1965) - Mrs. Koogleman * ''The Itch'' (1965) (short subject) - voice of Woman * ''

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'' (1966) - Mrs. Luce * ''

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'' (1966) - Lady Effigie Munster * '' Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon'' (1967) - Angelica *
Winter of the Witch
' (short) (1969) - the Old Witch * '' Tubby the Tuba'' (1975) - voice of Miss Squeek * '' A Little Night Music'' (1977) - Mme. Armfeldt * ''

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'' (1984) - Elizabeth Rennick

Television

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'' with

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and later

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(frequent guest from 1958 to 1962) * '' The Merv Griffin Show'' with Merv Griffin (frequent guest) * ''

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'' panelist (12/8/1959, 30/12/1959, 14/1/1963) * ''

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'' Mystery Challenger (19/4/1959, 8/9/1963) * ''

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'' ("The Schartz-Metterklume Method"—1960) - Miss Hope/Lady Charlotte * '' Beyond the Fringe'' (1967) (14 episodes) * '' It Takes a Thief'' (1968) ("Lay of the Land" – S01E15) - Duchess Christina * ''Winter of the Witch'' (1969) - Witch * '' Ironside'' ("Check Mate and Murder") (1970) - Ernestine Mugford * ''

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'' (1971) - Jane (segment "Love and the Heist") * '' Banyon'' (1971) (pilot for series) - Peggy Revere * ''Simple Gifts'' (1977) - Narrator (segment "The Great Frost") (voice) * ''Amy & the Angel'' (1982) - Pincus * ''

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'' ("Charades") (1983) - Felicity * '' How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days'' (1983) - Miss Sandwich

Works

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References

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