Cooper, Lillian Kemble (1891–1977)

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Cooper, Lillian Kemble (1891–1977)

English-born actress and singer. Name variations: Lillian Kemble-Cooper. Born Mar 21, 1891, in London, England; died May 4, 1977, in Los Angeles, California; dau. of Frank Kemble Cooper (actor) and Alice May (Taunton); granddau. of T. Clifford Cooper and Agnes Kemble; sister of Anthony Kemble Cooper (actor), Violet Kemble Cooper (actress), and Greta Kemble Cooper (actress); m. Louis Bernheimer; m. Charles Mackay (actor); m. Guy Bates Post (actor, died 1968).

Made stage debut in London in The Chocolate Soldier (1914); came to US (1918) and made NY stage debut in Hitchy-Koo (1919); other plays include The Night Boat, The New Morality, The National Anthem, The Mountebank and Our Betters.

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