Wissenswertes

One of the many celebrities who feuded with controversial gossip columnist Dorothy Kilgallen. In fact, one night Gingold appeared on Tonight Starring Jack Paar (1957) to be interviewed by Paar, who also was feuding with Kilgallen. When she walked out on stage she was carrying a picture of Kilgallen with a toilet seat as a frame.

Originally a dramatic actress with a coloratura soprano singing voice, her throaty purr developed and deepened as a result of vocal nodules, which her mother insisted she not remove.

Perhaps best remembered as the retired courtesan in "Gigi" in which she dueted "I Remember it Well" with Maurice Chevalier. She won theatre's Donaldson Award for "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" in 1954.

Lost most of her hair in her '70s and wore a wig to hide it. When she auditioned for the Broadway show 'A Little Night Music' she used this as an advantage - to show how much she had in common with the elderly character she was playing, she finished her audition by removing her wig. The astonished producers hired her immediately.

Was nominated for Broadway's 1973 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Musical) for "A Little Night Music," a role she recreated in the film version of the same name, Eine kleine Nachtmusik (1977).

Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, USA, in the Great Mausoleum.

She appeared in two Best Picture Academy Award winners: In 80 Tagen um die Welt (1956) and Gigi (1958).

Children from first marriage: sons Leslie and Stephen.

Published the first installment of her autobiography 'The World is Square'(1945). She also wrote 'Autumn Should be Seen and Not Heard'.

Hobbies included collecting china and interior decorating.

Often paired in stage revues with Hermione Baddeley; they also made occasional films together. However, in real life they were emphatically not friends and often made rude remarks about each other.

Made her stage debut in 1908 at Her Majesty's Theatre London in 'Pinkie and the Fairies'.

Appeared in three films nominated for the "Best Picture" Oscar: "Around the world in 80 days" (1956), "Gigi" (1958), and "The music man" 1962. Of those, both "Around the world in 80 days" and "Gigi" won the award.

For her work in Gigi (1958), she's one of only 4 actresses to win the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in a motion picture without receiving an Oscar nomination for the same performance. The other 3 are, in chronological order: Katy Jurado in Zwölf Uhr mittags (1952), Karen Black in Der große Gatsby (1974) and Katharine Ross in Reise der Verdammten (1976).

Winner of a Donaldson Award and a Hollywood Foreign Press Award.

Daughter of James Gingold and Kate (Walter).

Lived at 405 East 54th Street New York.

Studied under Rosina Filipps.

Her son, Stephen, founded the Stephen Joseph Theatre, a theatre-in-the-round, in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England.

She married publisher Michael Joseph.