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Encyclopedia > Coral Browne

Coral Edith Brown, later Browne (23 July 1913-29 May 1991) was a stage and screen actress. July 23 is the 204th day (205th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 161 days remaining. ... 1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... May 29 is the 149th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (150th in leap years). ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


She was born 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, Mercy Croft in The Killing of Sister George, and Lady Claire Gurney in The Ruling Class. The City of Melbournes coat of arms The central business district of Melbourne, viewed from the north Alternate meanings: Melbourne (disambiguation) Melbourne is the capital and largest city of the state of Victoria, and the second largest city in Australia, with a population of 52,117 in the Central... Broadway poster Auntie Mame is a 1955 novel by Patrick Dennis that chronicles his madcap adventures growing up as the ward of his deceased fathers eccentric sister. ... The Ruling Class is a 1972 satire film which tells the story of a mentally ill British nobleman who inherits a lordship. ...


She married actor Philip Pearman in 1950; he died in 1964. While appearing in Theatre of Blood she met actor Vincent Price, whom she married on 24 October 1974. She also conducted affairs with Firth Shephard, Jack Buchanan, actor Maurice Chevalier, and costume designer Cecil Beaton. 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Theatre of Blood was a 1973 horror film starring Vincent Price as vengeful actor Edward Lionheart and Diana Rigg as his daughter Edwina Lionheart. ... Vincent Price on Broadway as Mr. ... October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 68 days remaining. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ...


While touring the Soviet Union in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet, she met spy Guy Burgess. This meeting became the basis for the television movie An Englishman Abroad in which Browne played herself. The Royal Shakespeare Company is a British theatre company, one of the most influential in the country. ... The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare and one of his most well-known and oft-quoted plays. ... Guy Francis De Moncy Burgess (1911-1963) was a flamboyant, homosexual, British-born intelligence officer and double agent who worked for the Soviet Union, was part of the Cambridge Five spy-ring within MI5. ... An Englishman Abroad is a film based on the true story of a chance meeting of an actress, Coral Browne, with Guy Burgess, one of the famous group of Soviet Union whilst with MI6. ...


She became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1987. 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


She died in Los Angeles, California of breast cancer. Downtown Los Angeles skyline facing northeast toward the San Gabriel Mountains on a clear winter day. ... Breast cancer is cancer of breast tissue. ...


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Coral Browne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (251 words)
Coral Browne (July 23, 1913-May 29, 1991) was a stage and screen actress.
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.
Alan Bates Television Archive: "An Englishman Abroad" (1046 words)
FEW YEARS AGO actress Coral Browne told writer Alan Bennett about the time "Cambridge spy" Guy Burgess stumbled into her dressing room in Moscow while she was touring with the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in 1958.
Burgess met Browne during an intermission of "Hamlet" and invited her to lunch at his apartment seven years after he had disappeared and defected to the Soviet Union with fellow Cambridge alumnus and British diplomat Donald MacLean.
Witness Browne's realization on stage that it was the infamous Guy Burgess who had lurched into her dressing room looking for a place to be sick, or the way Burgess's matter-of-fact London tailor accepts a suit order as if the defector had been fitted only a day before.
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