Word: tanqueray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exemplar of British dignity on stage and screen; of pneumonia; in Henley-on-Thames, England. A beautiful chorine who became World War I's foremost pinup girl by shamelessly exposing her ankles, Dame Gladys early turned to the legitimate stage. After achieving stardom in The Second Mrs. Tanqueray in 1922, she managed London's Playhouse Theater. Planning to spend three weeks in Hollywood making Alfred Hitchcock's 1940 melodrama Rebecca, she remained for nearly three decades, playing in such movie classics as Now, Voyager and Separate Tables. Then she became the matriarch of a mob of high...