Hermione Gingold
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On stage from the age of 10 (in a production of Pinkie and the Fairies), British actress Hermione Gingold studied for her craft under famed instructor Rosinna Filippi. Gingold's subsequent stage career was almost exclusively devoted to the classics, particularly Shakespeare. Nearing 40, Gingold switched professional gears to become a singing comedienne, appearing in such West End revues as Sweet and Low, Sweeter and Lower and Sweetest and Lowest. Appearing on Broadway in the 1952 edition of John Murray Anderson's Almanac, Gingold held off making any American films (though she'd been in British pictures since 1934), until she was flattered by produced Mike Todd into playing a cameo role as a London tart in Todd's cinema spectacular Around the World in 80 Days (1956). Delightfully inhibited and doggedly aristocratic all at once, Gingold continued her U.S. film career in a number of eccentric roles; in Gigi (1958), she shared the poignant song "I Remember it Well" with Maurice Chevalier. The actress also blessed American TV with her talents; in a 1960 Mother's Day special she portrayed the mother of The Three Stooges! Gracing such films as Bell, Book and Candle (1962), The Music Man (1962) and even Munster Go Home (1965) with her regally ribald presence, Hermione Gingold was still at her post in the '70s, as sparkling as ever in the otherwise forgettable A Little Night Music (1976).
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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13% | Garbo Talks |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | Amy and the Angel |
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— | 1982 |
20% | A Little Night Music |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Tubby the Tuba |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Those Fantastic Flying Fools (Rocket to the Moon) |
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— | 1967 |
No Score Yet | Munster, Go Home |
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— | 1966 |
No Score Yet | I'd Rather Be Rich |
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— | 1964 |
No Score Yet | Promise Her Anything |
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— | 1964 |
80% | Gay Purr-ee |
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— | 1962 |
94% | The Music Man |
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— | 1962 |
No Score Yet | The Naked Edge |
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— | 1961 |
73% | Bell, Book and Candle |
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— | 1958 |
81% | Gigi |
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— | 1958 |
69% | Around the World in 80 Days |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | The Pickwick Papers |
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— | 1954 |
No Score Yet | Cosh Boy (The Slasher) |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | Tough Guy |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | Adventures of Sadie |
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— | 1953 |
96% | An American in Paris |
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— | 1951 |
TV
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Trapper John, M.D.
1979-1986
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Ironside
1967-1975
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No Score Yet |
It Takes a Thief
1968-1970
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No Score Yet |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-1962
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Quotes from Hermione Gingold's Characters
Eulalie MacKechnie Shinn: | One Grecian urn... (pick-a-little ladies pose) |
Eulalie MacKechnie Shinn: | One Grecian urn... [pick-a-little ladies pose] |
Eulalie MacKechnie Shinn: | Two Grecian urns... (different pose) |
Eulalie MacKechnie Shinn: | Two Grecian urns... [different pose] |
Eulalie MacKechnie Shinn: | And a fountain! (yet another pose) |
Eulalie MacKechnie Shinn: | And a fountain! [yet another pose] |