Word: gow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Wendy Hiller, 26, British stage and screen star (Love on the Dole, Pygmalion) ; and her playwright-husband, Ronald Gow: a girl, their first child; in London...
...member of the cast of Pygmalion whose work pleased everyone was 26-year-old Wendy Hiller. Famed as the star of Love on the Dole, whose coauthor, Ronald Gow, she married in 1937, Wendy Hiller plays Eliza with a minimum of frills, and complete sincerity. To her, as much as to Playwright Shaw and Producer Pascal, goes the credit for making Pygmalion come to life on the screen more completely than it ever did upon the stage...
Storm in a Teacup (Alexander Korda) is the tidiest, canniest, best-played bit of heather comedy to come from across the sea since René Clair made The Ghost Goes West. Provost Gow of Baikie (Cecil Parker), treading pompously toward Parliament, stumbled over Mrs. Honoria Hegarty's (Sara Allgood's) dog. Patsy, and her without the money to buy him a license at all. With the twists given this incident by a bright young journalist (Rex Harrison), Patsy's grief is heard all the way to London, and the resulting sympathy nearly forces Provost Gow into...
...HOUSMAN-A. S. F. Gow-Macmillan...
...actors the understatement which packs the play with dramatic dynamite. In the brief time she has been on the stage, no amount of directing could account for the amazing performance of Wendy Killer. An untrained natural, now only 21, she was playing in a Manchester stock company when Collaborators Gow & Greenwood found her. They selected her because she looked good in shorts and had the Lancashire accent necessary for the part of Sally Hardcastle. They got more than they bargained for because it was soon apparent that Wendy Hiller possessed mimic assets rare among seasoned actresses. Like Katharine Cornell...