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Hermione Gingold
12+ albums
UK
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Hermione Gingold (December 9, 1897 – May 24, 1987) was an English actress known for her sharp-tongued, eccentric persona, an image enhanced by her sharp nose and chin, as well as her deepening voice, a result of vocal nodes which her mother encouraged her not to remove. She appeared on stage, on radio, in films, on television, and in recordings. ------------------------------------------------------- Born Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold in London, England, she was the daughter of a high-standing Vienna-born Jewish financier James Gingold and Kate Walter or Walters, an English-born housewife. Her mother may also have been Jewish as her marriage to Lionel in 1894 was conducted by the Chief Rabbi. Her paternal grandparents were the Turkish-born British subject, Moritz "Maurice" Gingold, a London stockbroker, and his Austrian-born wife, Hermine, after whom Hermione Gingold was named. On her father's side she was descended from the celebrated Solomon Sulzer, a famous synagogue cantor and Jewish liturgical composer in Vienna. Gingold was a childhood friend of Noel Coward until her mother warned her away from him. First appearing on stage in 1909, she was originally a coloratura soprano and performed in Shakespearean dramas such as The Merchant of Venice and Troilus and Cressida and worked with Charles Hawtrey as an understudy. In the 1930s, her quirky, ribald comedic sense became famous through musical revues. She married British publisher Michael Joseph in 1918, with whom she had tw
top songs
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Pick-a-Little, Talk-a-Little
2,1182Liaisons
6613Pick a Little, Talk a Little
3034A Little Night Music: Liaisons
1565I Remember It Well
1486Liasons (from "A Little Night Music")
957Rachmaninov / Arr. Press & Gingold for Violin and Piano: 14 Romances, Op. 34: No. 14, Vocalise
828A Little Night Music: Liaisons (Hermione Gingold)
589The Borgias Are Having An Orgy
5710I Remember It Well (from "Gigi") - 2006 Remaster
55albums
The Music Man (Original Film Soundtrack)
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A Little Night Music
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A Little Night Music (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Live at the Café de Paris
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A Little Night Music - Original Broadway Cast Recording
La Gingold
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Send In The Clowns: The Ballads Of Stephen Sondheim
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Little Night Music [Original Broadway Cast]
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The Story So Far...
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The Music Man (Original Soundtrack)
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Gigi Original Soundtrack
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Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 / Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals, R. 125