She continued full-time stage work, however, including appearances as Lady Agatha Lazenby in The Admirable Crichton in 1916 and Clara de Foenix in Trelawny of the Wells. In 1913 Cooper appeared in her first film, The Eleventh Commandment, going on to make several more silent films during the First World War and shortly afterwards. That year she also played the title role in The Pursuit of Pamela at the Royalty. A highlight of 1913 was Dora in Diplomacy at Wyndham's Theatre. Among several other plays, the next year she was Muriel Pym in Milestones at the Royalty Theatre. In 1911, she appeared in a production of The Importance of Being Earnest and in Man and Superman. In 1908, she appeared in the musical Havana followed, the next year, by Our Miss Gibbs, in which she played Lady Connie she was then on tour again with Hicks, in Papa's Wife, before playing Sadie von Tromp in the hit operetta The Dollar Princess at Daly's Theatre in 1909. That Christmas, she was Molly in Babes in the Wood. The following year she became a chorus girl at the Gaiety Theatre, London, creating the small role of Eva in The Girls of Gottenberg. In 1906, she appeared as Lady Swan in London in The Belle of Mayfair and then in the pantomime Babes in the Wood as Mavis. The young beauty was also a popular photographic model. She made her stage debut in 1905 touring with Seymour Hicks in his musical Bluebell in Fairyland. In 1906, she appeared as Lady Swan in London in The Belle of Early life and career Gladys Cooper spent most of her childhood in Chiswick, where her family moved when she was an infant. Her two younger sisters were Doris Mabel (1891–1987) and Grace Muriel (1893–1982). Cooper was born at 23 Ennersdale Road, Hither Green, Lewisham, London, the oldest of the three daughters of Charles William Frederick Cooper (1844–1939) by his marriage to Mabel Barnett (1861–1944).
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