20 Facts About Hermione Baddeley

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Hermione Baddeley typically played brash, vulgar characters, often referred to as "brassy" or "blowsy".

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Hermione Baddeley found her milieu in revue, in which she played from the 1930s to the 1950s, co-starring several times with the English actress Hermione Gingold.

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Hermione Baddeley portrayed Mrs Cratchit in the 1951 film Scrooge and Ellen the maid in the 1964 Disney film Mary Poppins.

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Hermione Baddeley voiced Madame Adelaide Bonfamille in the 1970 Disney animated film, The Aristocats.

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Hermione Baddeley was a descendant of British American War of Independence General Sir Henry Clinton.

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Hermione Baddeley's half-brother, William Baddeley, was a Church of England clergyman who became Dean of Brisbane and Rural Dean of Westminster.

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Hermione Baddeley was known for supporting performances in such films as Passport to Pimlico, Tom Brown's Schooldays and Scrooge, The Pickwick Papers, The Belles of St Trinian's, Mary Poppins, and The Unsinkable Molly Brown, although she first began making films back in the 1920s.

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Hermione Baddeley had a long professional relationship with Noel Coward, appearing in many of his plays throughout the 1940s and 1950s.

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The most successful was her teaming with Hermione Baddeley Gingold in Coward's comedy Fallen Angels, though the two women were reportedly "no longer on speaking terms" by the end of the run.

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Hermione Baddeley was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Simone Signoret's best friend in Jack Clayton's Room at the Top.

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Hermione Baddeley was known to American audiences for roles in Bewitched, The Cara Williams Show, Camp Runamuck, Batman, Wonder Woman, $weepstake$, Little House on the Prairie, and Maude.

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Toward the end of her career, Hermione Baddeley was a voice-over actress, including roles in The Aristocats and The Secret of NIMH.

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In 1928 Hermione Baddeley married English aristocrat and socialite David Tennant.

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Hermione Baddeley arrived an hour late for the wedding, having misremembered the time booked for the ceremony.

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In 1940 Hermione Baddeley married Major John Henry Willis, of the 12th Lancers, son of Major-General Edward Willis, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.

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Hermione Baddeley had a relatively brief relationship with actor Laurence Harvey, 22 years her junior.

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Hermione Baddeley dedicated her autobiography, The Unsinkable Hermione Baddeley, to her pet dog.

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Hermione Baddeley continued to work in film and television until shortly before the end of her life.

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Hermione Baddeley died following a series of strokes on 19 August 1986, aged 79, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

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Hermione Baddeley was survived by two children, Pauline Tennant and David, from her first marriage.