Biographies: Gladys George - Actor

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An American actress, born in Patten, Maine, on September 13, 1900, to a British father, who was knighted for his service with the British army in India. She married actor Ben Erway (1922-1930), then married Edward H. Fowler (1933-1935), then married actor Leonard Penn (1935-1944), and finally married Kenneth Bradley (1946-1951). Among her most important works are The Roaring Twenties (1939), The Maltese Falcon (1941), and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). Gladys was born into an artistic atmosphere and turned to the theater at an early age, and after her teens, she became a Broadway star. Her first silent film was Red Hot Dollars (1919). Her marriage in 1933 to millionaire Edward Fowler helped her continue her career in talking films, the first of which was Straight Is the Way (1934) with the company MGM. Gladys George died on December 8, 1954, in Los Angeles, California, of a cerebral hemorrhage.

• 20 March 2022
• Dalia Saad