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Actor Born: August 15, 1912 in Bramshall, Cheshire, England, UK Death: May 14, 2003 in Beaconsfield, England, UK Biography:Educated at Winceby House, a girl's school in Sussex, British actress "Wendy Hiller" made her stage debut at age 18 with the Manchester Repertory troupe. Her stardom came as a result of her performance in the popular London "everyday folks" drama "Love on the Dole" in 1935 (written by her future husband "Ronald Gow"), later repeating this triumph on Broadway. Wendy's stage performance in "George Bernard Shaw's" "St. Joan" prompted Shaw to recommend her for the role of Eliza Doollittle in the film version of "Pygmalion" (1938). The actress was nominated for an Oscar (well deserved, since the film was actually made twice, one version "sanitized" for American audiences), but for many years thereafter her performance was unseen due to legal tangles arising from the musical remake of "Pygmalion", "My Fair Lady". Wendy later starred in another filmization of a Shaw play, "Major Barbara" (1941). Though she... Full Biography
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