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Hermione Gingold
Born: December 9, 1897
Died: May 24, 1987 (aged 89)
Bio: Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold was an English actress known for her sharp-tongued, eccentric persona. She had a strikingly individual voice, drawling and deep, the latter a result of nodes on her vocal chords in the 1920s and early 1930s.
Known for:
- The Music Man (1962)
- Bell, Book and Candle (1958)
- Gay Purr-ee (1962)
- The Naked Edge (1961)