Gertrude Lawrence

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Mad About the Boy 03:17 Tools
Getting to Know You 03:29 Tools
Someone to Watch Over Me 02:48 Tools
My Ship 03:13 Tools
I Whistle a Happy Tune 02:41 Tools
Do, Do, Do 03:12 Tools
Hello Young Lovers 03:07 Tools
The Physician 03:02 Tools
It's Bad for Me 03:16 Tools
Someday I'll Find You 02:50 Tools
Do Do Do 03:10 Tools
The Saga of Jenny 03:33 Tools
Shall We Dance? 02:52 Tools
Do-do-do 03:07 Tools
Shall I Tell You What I Think of You? 03:26 Tools
Poor Little Rich Girl 03:02 Tools
Experiment 02:36 Tools
Shall I Tell You What I Think? 03:27 Tools
Shadow Play 08:53 Tools
How Could We Be Wrong? 03:02 Tools
Nymph Errant 02:00 Tools
Maybe 02:56 Tools
An Hour Ago This Minute 03:01 Tools
Limehouse Blues 02:25 Tools
Parisian Pierrot 03:27 Tools
Getting To Know You (From "the King and I") 03:26 Tools
A Guy Named Joe 03:10 Tools
A Cup of Coffee, a Sandwich, and You 04:19 Tools
Someone To Watchover 02:44 Tools
One Life To Live 02:46 Tools
My Sweet 03:06 Tools
What Now? 03:09 Tools
Russian Blues 02:56 Tools
How Could We Be Wrong 02:54 Tools
Somebody to Watch Over Me 03:23 Tools
Getting To Know You - From 'The King And I' 03:27 Tools
Someone To Watch Over Me - Oh, Kay 1926 02:47 Tools
Jenny 03:19 Tools
This Is New 03:10 Tools
Getting to Know You [From The King and I] 03:30 Tools
A Cup of Coffee, A Sandwich and You 03:10 Tools
Getting to Know You - from The King And I 00:00 Tools
Getting To Know You (Broadway/The King & I/1951) 03:25 Tools
The Princess Of Pure Delight 03:06 Tools
Mad About the Boy - As Heard in Fallout 3 03:16 Tools
Getting to know you (The King and I) 03:27 Tools
Has Anybody Seen Our Ship? 04:29 Tools
Shall We Dance 02:54 Tools
Someone to Watch Over Me (From "Oh! Kay!") - 1926 - Remastered 1998 03:29 Tools
Lady In The Dark: My Ship 03:01 Tools
The Physician (Remastered) 03:27 Tools
At Your Command 03:24 Tools
Private Lives, Love Scene - Someday I'll Find You 04:47 Tools
Getting To Know You - (The King & I) 03:27 Tools
2-NIGHT @ 8-30 02:12 Tools
I Whistle A Happy Tune (The King And I) 03:10 Tools
You're My Decline And Fall 03:09 Tools
Private Lives, Love Scene II 04:24 Tools
Lady In The Dark: The Saga Of Jenny 03:19 Tools
Someone Watch Over Me 03:19 Tools
Let's Say Goodbye 03:14 Tools
Limehouse Blues/You Were Meant For Me/Do, Do, Do/Someone To Watch Over Me/A Cup Of Coffee/Wild Thyme/Experiment - Medley 08:27 Tools
A Cup of Coffee 03:19 Tools
Impossible You 03:05 Tools
Someone to watch over me (1927) 02:42 Tools
Mymph Errant 04:43 Tools
Nothing But A Lie 02:59 Tools
Experiment (feat. Ray Noble & His Orchestra) 02:40 Tools
Private Lives, Love Scene 04:43 Tools
Now You're Here 03:06 Tools
I Said "Goodbye" 01:44 Tools
Someone to Watch Over Me [From Oh, Kay!] 02:59 Tools
Limehouse Blues/You Were Meant For Me/Do, Do, Do/Someone To Watch Over Me/A Cup Of Coffee/Wild Thyme/Experiment (Medley) 03:17 Tools
Lady In The Dark: One Life To Live 02:34 Tools
On The Sunny Side Of The Street 02:40 Tools
Let's Say "Goodbye" 03:16 Tools
Overture 03:10 Tools
Someone to Watch Over Me (Oh, Kay) 02:42 Tools
Jenny (Lady in the Dark) 03:17 Tools
The King and I: Hello, Young Lovers (Anna) 03:13 Tools
Lady In The Dark: This Is New 02:56 Tools
They All Fall In Love 02:40 Tools
Shall We Dance? [From The King and I] 02:40 Tools
March Of The Siamese Children 03:17 Tools
I've Got A Crush On You 02:03 Tools
Shadows On The Window 02:57 Tools
I Said Goodbye 04:14 Tools
Princess of Pure Delight 03:10 Tools
Getting to Know You (From 'The King and I') 03:07 Tools
Act 1, Scene 1: Dr. Brooks' Office 04:26 Tools
May Be 04:26 Tools
One Life To Live [Lady In The Dark] 03:10 Tools
Family Album 08:54 Tools
Glamour Music [Lady In The Dark] 02:57 Tools
The Princess Of Pure Delight [Lady In The Dark] 02:56 Tools
A Cup of Coffee a Sandwich and You (A Charlot Revue of 1926) 03:02 Tools
Medley: Limehouse Blues / You Were Meant For Me / Do, Do, Do 04:06 Tools
Scene From 'Moonlight Is Silver' 04:01 Tools
Oh Fabulous One / Huxley / Girl of the Moment (Glamour Music Medley) 02:56 Tools
Getting To Know You (From “The King and I”) 03:25 Tools
Someone To Watch Over Me (from "Oh, Kay!") 02:56 Tools
My Ship [Lady In The Dark] 03:17 Tools
Scene From 'Shadow Play': Then / Play, Orchestra, Play / You Were There 08:54 Tools
Act 2 Love Scene From 'Private Lives': I Never Realised / If You Were The Only Girl In The World / Someday I'll Find You 04:26 Tools
The King And I - Whistle A Happy Tune 04:01 Tools
I've Been Waiting For Someone Like You 04:26 Tools
Exactly Like You 03:25 Tools
A Medley Of Gertrude Lawrence Song Successes 03:25 Tools
Glamour Music 03:07 Tools
Gertrude Lawrence Getting To Know You 03:07 Tools
Getting To Know You - Broadway/The King & I/1951 03:07 Tools
Lady In The Dark: Glamour Music Medley- Oh Fabulous One/ Huxley/ Girl Of The Moment 03:07 Tools
Lady In The Dark: The Princess Of Pure Delight 03:12 Tools
This Is New [Lady In The Dark] 03:12 Tools
Someone To Watch Over Me (Oh, Kay!) 02:03 Tools
Down In The Valley 31:26 Tools
Why Waste Your Tears? 31:26 Tools
Some Day I'll Find You 03:02 Tools
The King And I - Hello Young Lovers 03:11 Tools
Act 1 Love Scene From 'Private Lives': Someday I'll Find You 02:57 Tools
Act 2, Scene 3: My Ship (Liza & Charley) 04:01 Tools
Getting To Know You (The King And I) - Gertrude Lawrence 04:01 Tools
The Physician 1933 04:01 Tools
Limehouse Blues (A to Z, 1921 Show) 03:25 Tools
Why Waste Your Tears 03:25 Tools
Jenny (From “Lady in the Dark”) 03:25 Tools
Getting To Know You - (The King And I) 03:25 Tools
Lady In The Dark - Musical, Gershwin - Ausz. 03:25 Tools
The Saga of Jenny (From "Lady In the Dark") 03:25 Tools
Someone To Watch Over Me - (Oh, Kay!) 03:25 Tools
Maybe (Gershwin) 03:25 Tools
My Lord And Master 03:25 Tools
Shadows in the Window 03:25 Tools
The Saga Of Jenny [Lady In The Dark] 03:25 Tools
Act 1, Scene 2: Liza Elliot's Office (The Same Day) 03:25 Tools
The Physician (1933) 31:26 Tools
Getting To Know You (“The King and I”) 31:26 Tools
Getting to Know You {From the King and I} 31:26 Tools
Scene From 'Red Peppers': Has Anybody Seen Our Ship 04:42 Tools
Limehouse Bines ( from the "A to Z Revue") (Rec. 3 Novembr 1931) 02:57 Tools
I Whistle A Happy Tune (Digitally Remastered) 02:57 Tools
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Gertrude Lawrence (June 4, 1898 - September 6, 1952) was an actress and musical performer popular in the 1930s and 1940s, appearing on stage in London and on Broadway, and in several films. She is particularly associated with the light comedy of Noel Coward. She was born Gertrude Alexandria Dagmar Lawrence-Klasen, of English and Danish extraction, in London, England, and was a professional performer by the age of ten. She was sent to Catholic convent schools and attended the Italia Conti Academy, presumably to keep her out of trouble. She understudied Beatrice Lillie in the Andre Charlot London revues in the 1920s and in 1921, in the revue "A to Z", she co-introduced with Jack Buchanan Furber and Braham's "Limehouse Blues". She achieved stardom when the revues were brought to Broadway in 1924 and 1926. She was one of the foremost comediennes of her day, capable of playing both slapstick clowns and elegant ladies. Her great charisma is attested to by those who saw her on stage, but her films struggle to convey her charm. She married Francis Gordon-Howley, a director, during World War I, and they divorced in 1928, having had one daughter, Pamela (1918-2005). In 1928, she announced her engagement to Bertrand L. Taylor Jr., a New York stockbroker but the marriage was eventually called off. Lawrence then married Richard Aldrich, an American theatre owner from a blueblood family, on July 4, 1940, and they remained married until her death. Lawrence's onstage persona inspired composers and writers. George and Ira Gershwin wrote the play Oh, Kay! for her, with the well-loved song "Someone to Watch Over Me". She was the first British actress to have a lead role on Broadway. Cole Porter wrote Nymph Errant for her to star in, and it opened in London in 1929. Noel Coward wrote Private Lives and Tonight at 8:30 (a cycle of nine one-act musicals and plays) for her. She starred as Liza Elliot in Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin's psychoanalytical musical Lady in the Dark (played in the film version by Ginger Rogers), and was a popular entertainer of the troops in World War II. In 1949 Lawrence found a book called Anna and the King of Siam, which she decided would make a perfect musical. She persuaded the American team Rodgers and Hammerstein to write it for her. The result was The King and I, which introduced such memorable songs as: "Hello Young Lovers", "Getting to Know You", and "Shall We Dance". The King and I opened on Broadway in 1951, with Lawrence in the role of Anna, and was her greatest success; she won the 1952 Tony Award for Best Actress for her role as Anna Leonowens. Sadly, it was also her last. Lawrence died of liver cancer, which caused her to suffer jaundice, in New York, New York at the age of only 54, and she was buried in her pink "Shall We Dance?" gown from the second act of The King and I, in Lakeview Cemetery, in Upton, Massachusetts. In the biographical 1968 film, Star!, loosely based on her life, Lawrence was portrayed by Julie Andrews. Lawrence's grandson is the jazz saxophonist Benn Clatworthy, who is the child of her daughter, Pamela Gordon-Howley, who was a painter, and her second husband, the British sculptor Robert Clatworthy. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.