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'Coral Browne' (July 23, 1913 - May 29, 1991) was a stage and screen actress, famous for her wit.
She was born 'Coral Edith Brown' in Melbourne, Australia, where she began her stage career. At the age of twenty-one she emigrated to England, where she became established as a stage actress. She began film acting in 1936, with her more famous roles being Vera Charles in ''Auntie Mame'' (1958), Mercy Croft in ''The Killing of Sister George'' (1968), and Lady Claire Gurney in ''The Ruling Class'' (1972).
She married actor Philip Pearman in 1950; he died in 1964. While making the film ''Theatre of Blood'' (1973), she met actor Vincent Price, and they married on October 24, 1974. She also allegedly conducted affairs with Firth Shephard, Jack Buchanan, Maurice Chevalier, Michael Hordern, and costume designer Cecil Beaton, as well as affairs with women.[1]
In 1969, Browne played in the original production of Joe Orton's controversial farce ''What the Butler Saw'' in the West End at the Queen's Theatre with Sir Ralph Richardson, Stanley Baxter, and Hayward Morse.
While touring the Soviet Union in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of ''Hamlet'' in 1958, she met spy Guy Burgess. This meeting became the basis for the television movie ''An Englishman Abroad'' in which Browne played herself.
She became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1987 as a gift to Price, in exchange for which he converted to Roman Catholicism as a gift to her (she had converted many years previously).
She died in Los Angeles, California of breast cancer at the age of 77.
She is the subject of a biography ''The Coral Browne Story'' by the actress Barbara Angell [2]
★ Alan Bennett gives the date of her meeting with Burgess as 1958 in the introduction to his ''Single Spies'', which contains the text of ''An Englishman Abroad'' as a stage play and the text of ''A Question of Attribution'' about Anthony Blunt. ''Single Spies'', London, Faber, 1989, ISBN 0-571-14105-6.
★ ''The Coral Browne Story'' by Barbara Angell, ISBN 978 0 646 47322 2.[3]
★ ''Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography'' by Victoria Price, ISBN 0-312-26789-4.
★ ''Who's Who'', 1991, St. Martin's Press, 1991, p. 241.
★ ''Variety'', June 3, 1991, p. 69.
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She was born 'Coral Edith Brown' in Melbourne, Australia, where she began her stage career. At the age of twenty-one she emigrated to England, where she became established as a stage actress. She began film acting in 1936, with her more famous roles being Vera Charles in ''Auntie Mame'' (1958), Mercy Croft in ''The Killing of Sister George'' (1968), and Lady Claire Gurney in ''The Ruling Class'' (1972).
She married actor Philip Pearman in 1950; he died in 1964. While making the film ''Theatre of Blood'' (1973), she met actor Vincent Price, and they married on October 24, 1974. She also allegedly conducted affairs with Firth Shephard, Jack Buchanan, Maurice Chevalier, Michael Hordern, and costume designer Cecil Beaton, as well as affairs with women.[1]
In 1969, Browne played in the original production of Joe Orton's controversial farce ''What the Butler Saw'' in the West End at the Queen's Theatre with Sir Ralph Richardson, Stanley Baxter, and Hayward Morse.
While touring the Soviet Union in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of ''Hamlet'' in 1958, she met spy Guy Burgess. This meeting became the basis for the television movie ''An Englishman Abroad'' in which Browne played herself.
She became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1987 as a gift to Price, in exchange for which he converted to Roman Catholicism as a gift to her (she had converted many years previously).
She died in Los Angeles, California of breast cancer at the age of 77.
She is the subject of a biography ''The Coral Browne Story'' by the actress Barbara Angell [2]
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★ Alan Bennett gives the date of her meeting with Burgess as 1958 in the introduction to his ''Single Spies'', which contains the text of ''An Englishman Abroad'' as a stage play and the text of ''A Question of Attribution'' about Anthony Blunt. ''Single Spies'', London, Faber, 1989, ISBN 0-571-14105-6.
★ ''The Coral Browne Story'' by Barbara Angell, ISBN 978 0 646 47322 2.[3]
★ ''Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography'' by Victoria Price, ISBN 0-312-26789-4.
★ ''Who's Who'', 1991, St. Martin's Press, 1991, p. 241.
★ ''Variety'', June 3, 1991, p. 69.
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