Hermione Gingold

Her autobiography "How to Grow Old Disgracefully" was published in 1988. Hayward has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6251 Hollywood Blvd. 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. The brain cancer which took her life is traced by some back to her work in The Conqueror, filmed about 100 miles downwind of active Nevadan nuclear-weapon test sites, and in sets dressed with truckloads of dirt from the area. She was a regular guest on television talk shows, especially Jack Paar's, where audiences loved her stories. Other major films included I'll Cry Tomorrow and I Want to Live!, for which she won the Oscar. 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. In 1947 Hayward received the first of her five Academy Award nominations for Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman.

Armfeldt, which she reprised on film. She played a dramatic role in Among the Living, and a Southern belle in Reap the Wild Wind. 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. Although she didn't get that role, she won the role of the female lead in Beau Geste. 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. She went to Hollywood in 1939, aiming to become the unknown who won the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind. She sang "I Remember it Well" with Maurice Chevalier. Born Edythe Marrenner in Brooklyn, New York, she began her career as a photographer's model.

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. Susan Hayward (June 30, 1917 - March 14, 1975) was an American actress. 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. 1948 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman. They were to divorce in the 1940s. 1950 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - My Foolish Heart. After her divorce in 1926, she married writer and lyricist Eric Maschwitz. 1953 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - With a Song in My Heart.

She married British publisher Michael Joseph in 1918, with whom she had two sons, Stephen and Leslie. 1956 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - I'll Cry Tomorrow. In the 1930s, her quirky, ribald comedic sense became famous through musical revues. 1959 - Won Best Actress in a Leading Role - I Want to Live!. 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.