Hermione Gingold
Birthday: December 9, 1897 in Maida Vale, London, England, UK
Birth Name: Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold
One of stage, screen, radio and TV's most delightful, inimitable eccentrics, Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold was born the daughter of an upscale Austrian financier and English homemaker. She made her ...Show More
Really, sex and laughter do go very well together, and I wondered - and I still do - which is more i Show more
Really, sex and laughter do go very well together, and I wondered - and I still do - which is more important. Hide
I had all the schooling any actress needs. I learned enough to sign contracts.
I had all the schooling any actress needs. I learned enough to sign contracts.
(humorously comparing - in a stage revue - Sir Donald Wolfit's old-fashioned and somewhat stereotypi Show more
(humorously comparing - in a stage revue - Sir Donald Wolfit's old-fashioned and somewhat stereotypical performance as Richard III with Laurence Olivier's): "Olivier is a tour-de-force, and Wolfit is forced to tour". Hide
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
[on auditioning for "A Little Night Music"] "I'd played for royalty, but Steve Sondheim and Hal Prin Show more
[on auditioning for "A Little Night Music"] "I'd played for royalty, but Steve Sondheim and Hal Prince were too much for me. The only one who frightened me more was Noël Coward." Hide
"The nearest my mother ever got to telling me the facts of life was the day she called me to her roo Show more
"The nearest my mother ever got to telling me the facts of life was the day she called me to her room and said she had something important to tell me. After a good deal of embarassed coughing she spluttered, 'Don't ever sit down on a strange lavatory seat'". Hide
Hermione Gingold's FILMOGRAPHY
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