Mrs Patrick Campbell

Siān Phillips portrayed Mrs Patrick Campbell in the 1975 miniseries "Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill," which starred Lee Remick. She has since become a successful concert performer, creating critically-acclaimed solo shows such as Mostly Sondheim and Barbara Cook's Broadway.. She and her first husband had two children, Beo and Stella. Cook's last original musical role came in 1971 when she played Dolly Talbo in The Grass Harp. However, she did not abandon the stage. She died in Pau, France. During the 1960s, Cook also created roles in some less successful musicals: Liesl Brandel in 1961's The Gay Life and Carol Deems in 1964's Something More! She also tried her hand at non-musical roles, replacing Sandy Dennis in the play Any Wednesday and originating the role of Patsy Newquist in Jules Feiffer's Little Murders.. In her later years, Mrs Patrick Campbell made notable appearances in motion pictures, including "One More River" (1934), "Rip Tide" (1934), and "Crime and Punishment" (1935). Her two most famous roles after this were Marian the Librarian in Meredith Willson's 1957 hit The Music Man, and Amalia Balash in Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick's 1962 show She Loves Me. The song "Ice Cream," from that musical, later became one of Cook's signature songs.

In 1914, she played Eliza Doolittle in the original production of Shaw's Pygmalion; though much too old for the part, she was the obvious choice, being by far the biggest name on the London stage. Although Candide was not a success, Cook's portrayal of Cunegonde established her as one of Broadway's leading ingenues. Fourteen years after the death of her first husband in 1900, she became the second wife of George Cornwallis-West (born 1874) -- a dashing writer previously married to Jennie Jerome, the mother of Winston Churchill -- but she continued to use "Mrs Patrick Campbell" as her stage name. In this show, she had to sing one of the most difficult pieces of music ever written for Broadway: the coloratura mock-aria "Glitter and Be Gay.". She made her stage debut in 1888, four years after her marriage to Patrick Campbell, and became successful as a result of starring in Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's play, The Second Mrs Tanqueray, in 1893. Cook's good reviews and clear soprano voice enabled her to win the role of Cunegonde in Leonard Bernstein's new musical, Candide in 1956. She was born Beatrice Stella Tanner in Kensington, London, of English and Italian parents. In 1955, she began to attract major critical praise when she played the supporting role of Hilda Miller in Plain and Fancy, a modest hit.

Mrs Patrick Campbell (9th February 1865 - 9th April 1940) was a British stage actress, the most successful of her generation. Cook made her Broadway debut in 1951 as Sandy in the short-lived musical Flahooley. She next took roles in revivals of two Rodgers and Hammerstein hits: Ado Annie in Oklahoma! and Carrie Pipperidge in Carousel. And they're so close together!". October 25, 1927 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American singer and actress, famed for creating roles in the musicals Candide and The Music Man, among others. On actress Norma Shearer: "She has such pretty little eyes. Barbara Cook (b. To the loquacious George Bernard Shaw: "When you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said 'hush' just once.".

On success: "Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.". On homosexuals: "Does it really matter what these affectionate people do, so long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses?".