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How clever and capricious you are, cloaking yourself in anonymity

Hermione Gingold responds to a threatening letter

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Shaun Usher
Mar 16, 2022
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Hermione Gingold. Photo by Len Trievnor/Getty.

In 1950, English actress Hermione Gingold appeared on stage in London alongside Hermione Baddeley in Fallen Angels, a Noël Coward comedy in which—controversially at the time—its two female leads discussed pre-marital sex and adultery. Although it was a hit, even Coward was unimpressed with Charles Russell’s…

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