Hermione Gingold

Her autobiography "How to Grow Old Disgracefully" was published in 1988. Following her death in 1987, she was interred in Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. She is quoted as saying, "Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue." She died of heart problems and pneumonia in 1987. After about 1960 she suffered from early onset of Alzheimer's disease which was not diagnosed until 1980. Lynda Carter starred in a 1983 biopic of her life. She was a regular guest on television talk shows, especially Jack Paar's, where audiences loved her stories. She was also very close to frequent co-star and next door neighbor Glenn Ford. In 1977, with conductor Karl Bohm, she won a Grammy Award for Best Album for Children for Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf and Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals. She was married five times, including a union with Orson Welles from 1944-1948.

Armfeldt, which she reprised on film. She once complained famously that all the man she knew fell in love with Gilda, but woke up with her. Gingold played the mayor's snooty wife Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn in The Music Man (1962), starring Robert Preston and Shirley Jones and was part of the original 1973 Broadway cast of A Little Night Music in the role of Mme. Shy and reclusive in real life, Rita was the antithesis of the characters she played. She also performed in the Broadway show "Oh Dad, Poor Dad...Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad" in 1963. Her well-known films include You'll Never Get Rich (1941), Gilda (1946), The Lady from Shanghai (1948), and the 1953 remake of Sadie Thompson. She sang "I Remember it Well" with Maurice Chevalier. Her "other woman" part in Rouben Mamoulian's "Blood and Sand" solidified her new-found stardom.

She won a Golden Globe Award in the 1958 movie Gigi for her role as Madame Alvarez, a retired Paris courtesan, who was Gigi's grandmother and mentor. After a name change from Rita Cansino to Rita Hayworth, and painful electrolysis to raise her hairline, Rita made a splash as part of the ensemble cast in Howard Hawks' "Only Angels Have Wings". Gingold was introduced to US servicemen during World War II through the London revue "Sweet and Low." After moving to the United States in 1951, Gingold became a great success there as well. First attracting attention of film producers as part of the dance team "The Dancing Cansinos", she was signed first by Fox studios, then free-lanced for several years before signing with Columbia. They were to divorce in the 1940s. Rita Hayworth (real name Margarita Carmen Cansino) (October 17, 1918 - May 14, 1987) was a famous American film star during the 1940s nicknamed "The Love Goddess". After her divorce in 1926, she married writer and lyricist Eric Maschwitz.

She married British publisher Michael Joseph in 1918, with whom she had two sons, Stephen and Leslie. In the 1930s, her quirky, ribald comedic sense became famous through musical revues. First appearing on stage in 1909, she was originally a coloratura soprano and performed in Shakespearean dramas such as "The Merchant of Venice" and "Troilus and Cressida" and worked with Charles Hawtrey as an understudy. Born Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold in London, she was the daughter of an high-class Austrian financier and an English housewife.

She appeared on stage, on radio, in films, on television, and in recordings. Hermione Gingold (December 9, 1897-May 24, 1987) was an English actress known for her sharp-tongued, eccentric persona, an image enhanced by her sharp nose and chin, as well as her deepening voice, a result of vocal nodes which her mother encouraged her not to remove.