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...Martin stepped out of her role of Nurse Nellie Forbush and turned it over to Nightclub Singer Julie Wilson. The next night Mary was doing a nightclub stint herself. She agreed to do a cabaret skit, including singing a duet (Baby, It's Cold Outside), with Friend Noel Coward. Occasion: a benefit performance for the London Actors Orphanage...
Viennese Comedy. Gertrude danced through the stock-market crash and the depression '30s. She played her first straight role in the Viennese comedy Candle Light, and Noel Coward wired her: "Legitimate at last, darling. Won't mother be pleased?" Coward wrote Private Lives especially for her, and as Amanda, whose heart "was jagged with sophistication," she profoundly affected a generation of theatergoing young women. In Tonight at 8:30, Susan and God, Skylark and Lady in the Dark, Gertrude made as much as $5,000 a week. All the money ran through her fingers as fast...
...already calling herself Gertie Lawrence when she won a scholarship at London's Conti Dancing Academy. Another student, Noel Coward, remembers her as a lively 14-year-old with ringlets: "Her face was far from pretty but tre mendously alive. She gave me an orange and told me a few mildly dirty stories, and I loved her from then onwards." Once, her teacher led her to a piano, put a piece of paper under the strings, and struck a chord. "That," she said, "is what your voice sounds like." Gertie worked hard to get rid of her cockney twang...
...Hart remembers that "she had, in a true sense, glamour. She had more of it than anyone else." Her range as an actress was extraordinary. She could be gay, sad, witty, tragic, funny, touching. She was as capable of fine subtlety as of noisy overemphasis. She was, according to Coward, "barely pretty," but she "appropriated beauty to herself . . . along with all the tricks and mannerisms that go with it." Possibly the narrowest view of her talents was held by Gertrude herself: "I am not what you would call a wonderful dancer, but I am light on my feet and make...
...Greenwich, England, Noel Coward was fined ?1 for driving his white Jaguar 40 m.p.h. in a 30-mi. zone. The celebrated wit's unwitty line: "My speedometer wasn't working...