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Gertrude Lawrence, the Glossary

Gertrude Lawrence (4 July 1898 – 6 September 1952) was an English actress, singer, dancer and musical comedy performer known for her stage appearances in the West End of London and on Broadway in New York.^[1]

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Alexander Korda

Sir Alexander Korda (born Sándor László Kellner; Korda Sándor; 16 September 1893 – 23 January 1956), BFI Screenonline.

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Alexander Woollcott

Alexander Humphreys Woollcott (January 19, 1887 – January 23, 1943) was an American drama critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine, a member of the Algonquin Round Table, an occasional actor and playwright, and a prominent radio personality.

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Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director.

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AMC (TV channel)

AMC is an American basic cable television channel that first launched in 1984, and is the namesake flagship property of AMC Networks.

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André Charlot

Eugène André Maurice Charlot (26 July 1882 – 20 May 1956) was a French-born impresario known primarily for the musical revues he staged in London between 1912 and 1937.

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Angaur

, or italic in Palauan, is an island and state in the island nation of Palau.

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Anna and the King of Siam (film)

Anna and the King of Siam is an American 1946 drama film directed by John Cromwell.

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Anna and the King of Siam (novel)

Anna and the King of Siam is a 1944 semi-fictionalized biographical novel by Margaret Landon.

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Aren't We All?

Aren't We All? is a comic play by Frederick Lonsdale.

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Aren't We All? (film)

Aren't We All? is a 1932 British comedy film directed by Harry Lachman and starring Gertrude Lawrence, Hugh Wakefield and Owen Nares.

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Arthur Kennedy

John Arthur Kennedy (February 17, 1914January 5, 1990) was an American stage and film actor known for his versatility in supporting film roles and his ability to create "an exceptional honesty and naturalness on stage", especially in the original casts of Arthur Miller plays on Broadway. Gertrude Lawrence and Arthur Kennedy are Tony Award winners.

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Arthur Treacher

Arthur Veary Treacher (23 July 1894 – 14 December 1975) was an English film and stage actor active from the 1920s to the 1960s, and known for playing English types, especially butler and manservant roles, such as the P.G. Wodehouse valet character Jeeves (Thank You, Jeeves!, 1936) and the kind butlers opposite Shirley Temple in Curly Top (1935) and Heidi (1937).

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Astoria, Queens

Astoria is a neighborhood in the western portion of the New York City borough of Queens.

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Basil Dean

Basil Herbert Dean CBE (27 September 1888 – 22 April 1978) was an English actor, writer, producer and director in the theatre and in cinema.

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Bass (voice type)

A bass is a type of classical male singing voice and has the lowest vocal range of all voice types.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC Radio

BBC Radio is an operational business division and service of the public service broadcast outlet British Broadcasting Corporation (which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a royal charter since 1927).

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Beatrice Lillie

Beatrice Gladys Lillie, Lady Peel (29 May 1894 – 20 January 1989), known as Bea Lillie, was a Canadian-born British actress, singer and comedic performer.

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Behold, We Live

Behold, We Live is a 1932 play by the British writer John Van Druten.

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Benn Levy

Benn Wolfe Levy (7 March 1900 – 7 December 1973) was a Labour Party Member of Parliament in the House of Commons (1945–1950), and a successful playwright.

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Bette Davis

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television, and theater.

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Blackpool

Blackpool is a seaside resort town in Lancashire, England.

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Blithe Spirit (play)

Blithe Spirit is a comic play by Noël Coward, described by the author as "an improbable farce in three acts".

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Body and Soul (1930 song)

"Body and Soul" is a popular song and jazz standard written in 1930 with music by Johnny Green and lyrics by Edward Heyman, Robert Sour and Frank Eyton.

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Bognor Regis

Bognor Regis, also known as Bognor, is a town and seaside resort in West Sussex on the south coast of England, south-west of London, west of Brighton, south-east of Chichester and east of Portsmouth.

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Bosley Crowther

Francis Bosley Crowther Jr. (July 13, 1905 – March 7, 1981) was an American journalist, writer, and film critic for The New York Times for 27 years.

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British Airways

British Airways plc (BA) is the flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom.

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British War Relief Society

The British War Relief Society (BWRS) was a US-based humanitarian umbrella organisation dealing with the supply of non-military aid such as food, clothes, medical supplies and financial aid to people in Great Britain during the early years of the Second World War.

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Brixton

Brixton is an area of South London, part of the London Borough of Lambeth, England.

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Broadcast syndication

Broadcast syndication is the practice of content owners leasing the right to broadcast television shows or radio programs to multiple television stations or radio stations, without having an official broadcast network to air on.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.

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Brooks Atkinson

Justin Brooks Atkinson (November 28, 1894 – January 14, 1984) was an American theatre critic.

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Bryan Forbes

Bryan Forbes CBE (born John Theobald Clarke; 22 July 1926 – 8 May 2013) was an English film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor and novelist described as a "Renaissance man"Falk Q..

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Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Cabaret

Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama.

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Can the Leopard...?

Can the Leopard...? is a 1931 comedy play by the British writer Ronald Jeans.

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CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.

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Charles Laughton

Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was a British-American actor.

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Charlie Ruggles

Charles Sherman Ruggles (February 8, 1886 – December 23, 1970) was an American comic character actor.

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Cinderella

"Cinderella", or "The Little Glass Slipper", is a folk tale with thousands of variants that are told throughout the world.

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Clapham

Clapham is a district in south west London, England, lying mostly within the London Borough of Lambeth, but with some areas (including Clapham Common) extending into the neighbouring London Borough of Wandsworth.

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Clifton Webb

Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck (November 19, 1889 – October 13, 1966), known professionally as Clifton Webb, was an American actor, singer, and dancer.

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Cole Porter

Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. Gertrude Lawrence and Cole Porter are Tony Award winners.

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Columbia University

Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Coma

A coma is a deep state of prolonged unconsciousness in which a person cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light, or sound, lacks a normal wake-sleep cycle and does not initiate voluntary actions.

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Connecticut

Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Constance Carpenter

Constance Emmeline Carpenter (19 April 1904 – 26 December 1992) was an English-born American film and musical theatre actress. Gertrude Lawrence and Constance Carpenter are English musical theatre actresses.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow;; or) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Daily Mirror

The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper.

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Daniel Massey (actor)

Daniel Raymond Massey (10 October 193325 March 1998) was an English actor and performer. Gertrude Lawrence and Daniel Massey (actor) are 20th-century English singers.

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Daphne du Maurier

Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, (13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English novelist, biographer and playwright.

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Dennis, Massachusetts

Dennis is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, located near the center of Cape Cod.

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Diana Wynyard

Diana Wynyard, CBE (born Dorothy Isobel Cox; 16 January 1906 – 13 May 1964) was an English stage and film actress.

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Dimming the lights on Broadway

The dimming of the marquee lights of Broadway theaters in New York City is an act done to honor the death of a significant person in the theatre world.

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Ed Sullivan

Edward Vincent Sullivan (September 28, 1901 – October 13, 1974) was an American television host, impresario, sports and entertainment reporter, and syndicated columnist for the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate.

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Eliza Doolittle

Eliza Doolittle is a fictional character and the protagonist in George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion (1913) and its 1956 musical adaptation, My Fair Lady.

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Elsa Lanchester

Elsa Sullivan Lanchester (28 October 1902 – 26 December 1986) was a British actress with a long career in theatre, film and television.

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Entertainments National Service Association

The Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) was an organisation established in 1939 by Basil Dean and Leslie Henson to provide entertainment for British armed forces personnel during World War II.

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist.

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Estelle Liebling

Estelle Liebling (April 21, 1880 – September 25, 1970) was an American soprano, composer, arranger, music editor, and celebrated voice teacher and vocal coach.

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Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church

Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) church in New York City.

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Financial District, Manhattan

The Financial District of Lower Manhattan, also known as FiDi, is a neighborhood located on the southern tip of Manhattan in New York City.

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Frederick Lonsdale

Frederick Lonsdale (5 February 1881 – 4 April 1954) was a British playwright known for his librettos to several successful musicals early in the 20th century, including King of Cadonia (1908), The Balkan Princess (1910), Betty (1915), The Maid of the Mountains (1917), Monsieur Beaucaire (1919) and Madame Pompadour (1923).

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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist.

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George Gershwin

George Gershwin (born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres.

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George S. Kaufman

George Simon Kaufman (November 16, 1889June 2, 1961) was an American playwright, theater director and producer, humorist, and drama critic.

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Gerald du Maurier

Sir Gerald Hubert Edward Busson du Maurier (26 March 1873 – 11 April 1934) was an English actor and manager.

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Geraldine Somerville

Geraldine Margaret Agnew-Somerville (born 19 May 1967) is an Irish-British actress.

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Gerhart Hauptmann

Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann (15 November 1862 – 6 June 1946) was a German dramatist and novelist.

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Getting to Know You (song)

"Getting to Know You" is a show tune from the 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I. It was first sung by Gertrude Lawrence in the original Broadway production and later by Marni Nixon who dubbed for Deborah Kerr in the 1956 film adaptation.

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Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo (born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson; 18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990) was a Swedish-American actress and a premier star during Hollywood's silent and early golden eras.

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Guy Bolton

Guy Reginald Bolton (23 November 1884 – 4 September 1979) was an Anglo-American playwright and writer of musical comedies.

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Harry Lachman

Harry B. Lachman (June 29, 1886 – March 19, 1975) was an American artist, set designer, and film director.

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Hattie Carnegie

Hattie Carnegie (March 15, 1886 – February 22, 1956) was a fashion entrepreneur based in New York City from the 1920s to the 1950s.

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Hepatitis

Hepatitis is inflammation of the liver tissue.

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Household Cavalry

The Household Cavalry (HCAV) is a corps of the Household Division, made up of the two most senior regiments of the British Army; The Life Guards and The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons).

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Impresario

An impresario (from Italian impresa, 'an enterprise or undertaking') is a person who organizes and often finances concerts, plays, or operas, performing a role in stage arts that is similar to that of a film or television producer.

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Inland Revenue

The Inland Revenue was, until April 2005, a department of the British Government responsible for the collection of direct taxation, including income tax, national insurance contributions, capital gains tax, inheritance tax, corporation tax, petroleum revenue tax and stamp duty.

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Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin (born Israel Gershovitz; December 6, 1896 – August 17, 1983) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs in the English language of the 20th century.

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Irene Sharaff

Irene Sharaff (January 23, 1910 – August 16, 1993) was an American costume designer for stage and screen. Gertrude Lawrence and Irene Sharaff are Tony Award winners.

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Italia Conti

Italia Emily Stella Conti (1873 – 8 February 1946) was an English actress and the founder of the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London.

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Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts

The Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, also known simply as Italia Conti, is a drama school based in Woking, England.

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Ivor Novello

Ivor Novello (born David Ivor Davies; 15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951) was a Welsh actor, dramatist, singer and composer who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century.

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Jack Buchanan

Walter John Buchanan (2 April 1891 – 20 October 1957) was a Scottish theatre and film actor, singer, dancer, producer and director.

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Jane Wyman

Jane Wyman (born Sarah Jane Mayfield; January 5, 1917 – September 10, 2007).

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Janet McTeer

Janet McTeer (born 5 August 1961. Derbrett's People of Today. Retrieved 31 December 2015. Births, Marriages, & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005; at ancestry.com) is an English actress. Gertrude Lawrence and Janet McTeer are English radio actresses and Tony Award winners.

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John Davis Lodge

John Davis Lodge (October 20, 1903 – October 29, 1985) was an American film actor, lawyer, politician, and diplomat.

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Johnny Green

John Waldo Green (October 10, 1908 – May 15, 1989) was an American songwriter, composer, musical arranger, conductor and pianist.

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Julie Andrews

Dame Julie Andrews (born Julia Elizabeth Wells; 1 October 1935) is an English actress, singer, and author. Gertrude Lawrence and Julie Andrews are English expatriate actresses in the United States and English musical theatre actresses.

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Katharine Cornell

Katharine Cornell (February 16, 1893 – June 9, 1974) was an American stage actress, writer, theater owner and producer. Gertrude Lawrence and Katharine Cornell are Tony Award winners.

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Kaufman Astoria Studios

The Kaufman Astoria Studios is a film studio located in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens in New York City.

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Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020) was an American actor and filmmaker.

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Kitty Carlisle

Kitty Carlisle Hart (born Catherine Conn; September 3, 1910 – April 17, 2007) was an American stage and screen actress, opera singer, television personality and spokesperson for the arts.

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Kurt Weill

Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900April 3, 1950) was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. Gertrude Lawrence and Kurt Weill are Tony Award winners.

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Lady in the Dark

Lady in the Dark is a musical with music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book and direction by Moss Hart.

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Landing Ship, Tank

Landing Ship, Tank (LST), or tank landing ship, is the naval designation for ships first developed during World War II (1939–1945) to support amphibious operations by carrying tanks, vehicles, cargo, and landing troops directly onto a low slope beach with no docks or piers.

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Laurence Olivier

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, was one of a trio of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England.

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Leslie Howard

Leslie Howard Steiner (3 April 18931 June 1943) was an English actor, director, producer and writer.

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Life (magazine)

Life is an American magazine published weekly from 1883 to 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, a monthly from 1978 until 2000, and an online supplement since 2008.

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Limehouse Blues (song)

"Limehouse Blues" is a popular British song written by the London-based duo of Douglas Furber (lyrics) and Philip Braham (music).

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Liverpool Playhouse

The Liverpool Playhouse is a theatre in Williamson Square in the city of Liverpool, England.

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London Calling! (musical)

London Calling! was a musical revue, produced by André Charlot with music and lyrics by Noël Coward, which opened at the Duke of York's Theatre, London on 4 September 1923.

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Lord Camber's Ladies

Lord Camber's Ladies (1932) is a British drama film directed by Benn W. Levy, produced by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Gerald du Maurier, Gertrude Lawrence, Benita Hume, and Nigel Bruce.

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Low back pain

Low back pain or '''lumbago''' is a common disorder involving the muscles, nerves, and bones of the back, in between the lower edge of the ribs and the lower fold of the buttocks.

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Luise Rainer

Luise Rainer (12 January 1910 – 30 December 2014) was a German-born film actress.

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Madeleine Carroll

Marie-Madeleine Bernadette O'Carroll (26 February 1906 – 2 October 1987) was an English actress, popular both in Britain and in America in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Malcolm Sinclair (actor)

Malcolm Sinclair (born 5 June 1950) is a British stage and television actor and former President of Trade Union, Equity 2010–18 when he stood down after 4 terms and was replaced by Maureen Beattie.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.

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Margaret Forster

Margaret Forster (25 May 1938 – 8 February 2016) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and critic, best known for the 1965 novel Georgy Girl, made into a successful film of the same name, which inspired a hit song by The Seekers.

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Margaret Landon

Margaret Landon (September 7, 1903 – December 4, 1993) was an American writer known for Anna and the King of Siam, her best-selling 1944 novel of the life of Anna Leonowens which eventually sold over a million copies and was translated into more than twenty languages.

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Margaret Rutherford

Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford, (11 May 1892 – 22 May 1972) was an English actress of stage, film and television.

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Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 August 4, 1962) was an American actress and model.

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Marlene Dietrich

Marie Magdalene "Marlene" DietrichBorn as Maria Magdalena, not Marie Magdalene, according to Dietrich's biography by her daughter, Maria Riva; however, Dietrich's biography by Charlotte Chandler cites "Marie Magdalene" as her birth name.

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Max Reinhardt

Max Reinhardt (born Maximilian Goldmann; 9 September 1873 – 30 October 1943) was an Austrian-born theatre and film director, intendant, and theatrical producer.

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Men Are Not Gods

Men Are Not Gods is a 1936 British film starring Miriam Hopkins and co-starring Gertrude Lawrence, Sebastian Shaw and Rex Harrison.

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Michael Gough

Francis Michael Gough (23 November 1916 – 17 March 2011) was a British character actor who made more than 150 film and television appearances. Gertrude Lawrence and Michael Gough are Tony Award winners.

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Mimi (1935 film)

Mimi is a 1935 British romance film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Gertrude Lawrence and Diana Napier.

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Moss Hart

Moss Hart (October 24, 1904 – December 20, 1961) was an American playwright, librettist, and theater director. Gertrude Lawrence and Moss Hart are Tony Award winners.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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New York Herald Tribune

The New York Herald Tribune was a newspaper published between 1924 and 1966.

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New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, is located at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, in the Lincoln Center complex on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, New York City.

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Newington, London

Newington is a district of South London, just south of the River Thames, and part of the London Borough of Southwark.

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No Funny Business

No Funny Business is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Victor Hanbury and starring Laurence Olivier, Gertrude Lawrence, Jill Esmond and Edmund Breon.

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Noël Coward

Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise". Gertrude Lawrence and Noël Coward are Alumni of the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts.

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Normandy

Normandy (Normandie; Normaundie, Nouormandie; from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy.

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Normandy landings

The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War.

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Nymph Errant

Nymph Errant is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and book by Romney Brent based upon the novel by James Laver.

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Official receiver

An officer of the Insolvency Service of the United Kingdom, an official receiver (OR) is an officer of the court to which they are attached.

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Oh, Kay!

Oh, Kay! is a musical with music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and a book by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse.

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Oscar Hammerstein II

Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II (July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American lyricist, librettist, theatrical producer, and (usually uncredited) director in musical theater for nearly 40 years. Gertrude Lawrence and Oscar Hammerstein II are Tony Award winners.

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P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) was an English writer and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation, commonly known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount, is an American film and television production and distribution company and the namesake subsidiary of Paramount Global.

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Park Avenue

Park Avenue is a boulevard in New York City that carries north and southbound traffic in the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx.

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Phil Silvers

Phil Silvers (born Phillip Silver; May 11, 1911 – November 1, 1985) was an American entertainer and comedic actor, known as "The King of Chutzpah". Gertrude Lawrence and Phil Silvers are Tony Award winners.

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Pleurisy

Pleurisy, also known as pleuritis, is inflammation of the membranes that surround the lungs and line the chest cavity (pleurae).

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Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli.

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Private Lives

Private Lives is a 1930 comedy of manners in three acts by Noël Coward.

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Psychoanalysis

PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: +. is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques"What is psychoanalysis? Of course, one is supposed to answer that it is many things — a theory, a research method, a therapy, a body of knowledge.

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Punch (magazine)

Punch, or The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells.

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Pygmalion (play)

Pygmalion is a play by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, named after the Greek mythological figure.

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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was an Indian poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renaissance.

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Rachel Crothers

Rachel Crothers (December 12, 1870 – July 5, 1958) was an American playwright and theater director known for her well-crafted plays that often dealt with feminist themes.

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Raymond Massey

Raymond Hart Massey (August 30, 1896 – July 29, 1983) was a Canadian actor, known for his commanding, stage-trained voice.

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RCA

The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded in 1919 as the Radio Corporation of America.

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Rembrandt (1936 film)

Rembrandt is a 1936 British biographical film made by London Film Productions of the life of 17th-century Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn.

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Revue

A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance, and sketches.

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Rex Harrison

Sir Reginald Carey "Rex" Harrison (5 March 1908 – 2 June 1990) was an English actor. Gertrude Lawrence and Rex Harrison are Tony Award winners.

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Richard Aldrich (producer)

Richard Stoddard Aldrich (August 17, 1902March 31, 1986) was an American theatre producer, theatre manager, director, and diplomat.

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Richard Crenna

Richard Donald Crenna (November 30, 1926 – January 17, 2003) was an American actor.

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Richard Rodgers

Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an American composer who worked primarily in musical theater. Gertrude Lawrence and Richard Rodgers are Tony Award winners.

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Richard Watts Jr.

Richard Watts Jr. (1898–1981) was an American theatre critic.

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Robert Clatworthy (sculptor)

Robert Ernest Clatworthy RA (31 January 1928 – 15 or 16 March 2015) was a British sculptor and teacher of art.

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Robert Florey

Robert Florey (14 September 1900 – 16 May 1979) was a French-American director, screenwriter, film journalist and actor.

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Samson Raphaelson

Samson Raphaelson (March 30, 1894 – July 16, 1983) was an American playwright, screenwriter and fiction writer.

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Saturday Review (U.S. magazine)

Saturday Review, previously The Saturday Review of Literature, was an American weekly magazine established in 1924.

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Scenes of Bohemian Life

Scenes of Bohemian Life (original French title) is a work by Henri Murger, published in 1851.

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Sheridan Morley

Sheridan Morley (5 December 1941 − 16 February 2007) was an English author, biographer, critic and broadcaster.

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Soho

Soho is an area of the City of Westminster in the West End of London.

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South West Pacific theatre of World War II

The South West Pacific theatre, during World War II, was a major theatre of the war between the Allies and the Axis.

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Southern American English

Southern American English or Southern U.S. English is a regional dialect or collection of dialects of American English spoken throughout the Southern United States, though concentrated increasingly in more rural areas, and spoken primarily by White Southerners.

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Sovereign (British coin)

The sovereign is a British gold coin with a nominal value of one pound sterling (£1) and contains 0.2354 troy oz of pure gold.

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St. James Theatre

The St.

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Stage Door Canteen (film)

Stage Door Canteen is a 1943 American World War II film with musical numbers and other entertainment interspersed with dramatic scenes by a largely unknown cast.

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Star! (film)

Star! (re-titled Those Were the Happy Times for its 1969 re-release) is a 1968 American biographical musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews.

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Susan and God

Susan and God is a 1940 American comedy-drama film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer directed by George Cukor and starring Joan Crawford and Fredric March.

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Sussex

Sussex (/ˈsʌsɪks/; from the Old English Sūþsēaxe; lit. 'South Saxons') is an area within South East England which was historically a kingdom and, later, a county.

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Tallulah Bankhead

Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968) was an American actress.

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TBS (American TV channel)

TBS (originally an initialism of Turner Broadcasting System), stylized as tbs, is an American basic cable television network owned by the Networks division of Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter.

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Tenor saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s.

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The Assumption of Hannele

The Ascension of Little Hannele (Hanneles Himmelfahrt), also known simply as Hannele, is an 1893 play by the German playwright Gerhart Hauptmann.

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The Battle of Paris

The Battle of Paris (a.k.a. The Gay Lady) is a 1929 American pre-Code musical film.

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The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American television variety show that ran on CBS from June 20, 1948, to March 28, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan.

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The Glass Menagerie (1950 film)

The Glass Menagerie is a 1950 American drama film directed by Irving Rapper.

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The King and I

The King and I is the fifth musical by the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein.

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The King of Queens

The King of Queens is an American television sitcom that ran on CBS from September 21, 1998, to May 14, 2007, a total of nine seasons and 207 episodes.

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The Man Who Came to Dinner

The Man Who Came to Dinner is a comedy play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.

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The Miracle (play)

The Miracle (Das Mirakel) is a 1911 wordless play written by Karl Vollmöller, from which three movie versions were adapted.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Tonight at 8.30

Tonight at 8.30 is a cycle of ten one-act plays by Noël Coward, presented in London in 1936 and in New York in 1936–1937, with the author and Gertrude Lawrence in the leading roles.

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Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical

The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical is an honor presented at the Tony Awards, a ceremony established in 1947 as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, to actresses for quality leading roles in a musical play, whether a new production or a revival.

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Toronto

Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Treasure Girl

Treasure Girl is a musical with a book by Fred Thompson and Vincent Lawrence, music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin.

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Turtle Bay, Manhattan

Turtle Bay is a neighborhood in New York City, on the east side of Midtown Manhattan.

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Ulithi

Ulithi (Wulthiy, Yulthiy, or Wugöy; pronounced roughly as YOU-li-thee) is an atoll in the Caroline Islands of the western Pacific Ocean, about east of Yap, within Yap State.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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Upton, Massachusetts

Upton is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Voice-over

Voice-over (also known as off-camera or off-stage commentary) is a production technique used in radio, television, filmmaking, theatre, and other media in which a descriptive or expository voice that is not part of the narrative (i.e., non-diegetic) accompanies the pictured or on-site presentation of events.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Lawrence

Also known as Alexandre Dagmar Lawrence-Klasen, Alexandre Lawrence-Klasen, Gertrud Alexandra Dagmar Klasen, Gertrude Alexandra Dagmar Lawrence Klasen, Gertrude Alice Dagmar Klasen, Gertrude Klasen.

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