| # | Fact |
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| 1 | Wrote autobiography - 'Without Veils'. |
| 2 | Appeared in five films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Rebecca (1940), Kitty Foyle (1940), The Song of Bernadette (1943), Separate Tables (1958), and My Fair Lady (1964). Of those, Rebecca (1940) and My Fair Lady (1964) are winners in the category. |
| 3 | She played Laurence Olivier's sister in Rebecca (1940) and his wife in That Hamilton Woman (1941). |
| 4 | Is one of 26 actresses to have received an Academy Award nomination for their performance in a musical; hers being My Fair Lady (1964). The others, in chronological order, are: Bessie Love (The Broadway Melody (1929)), Grace Moore (One Night of Love (1934)), Jean Hagen (Singin' in the Rain (1952)), Marjorie Rambeau (Torch Song (1953)), Dorothy Dandridge (Carmen Jones (1954)), Deborah Kerr (The King and I (1956)), Rita Moreno (West Side Story (1961)), Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins (1964), The Sound of Music (1965) and Victor Victoria (1982)), Debbie Reynolds (The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)), Peggy Wood (The Sound of Music (1965)), Carol Channing (Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)), Kay Medford (Funny Girl (1968)), Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl (1968)), Liza Minnelli (Cabaret (1972)), Ronee Blakley (Nashville (1975)), Lily Tomlin (Nashville (1975)), Ann-Margret (Tommy (1975)), Lesley Ann Warren (Victor Victoria (1982)), Amy Irving (Yentl (1983)), Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge! (2001)), Queen Latifah (Chicago (2002)), Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago (2002)), Renée Zellweger (Chicago (2002)), Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls (2006)), Penelope Cruz (Nine (2009)), Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables (2012)), and Meryl Streep (Into the Woods (2014)). |
| 5 | She appeared in two Best Picture Academy Award winners: Rebecca (1940) and My Fair Lady (1964). |
| 6 | "Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties" by Axel Nissen has a short biography of her, focusing on her movie career as a character actress. |
| 7 | Famed British novelist and poet Stevie Smith was the secretary of Gladys' second husband Sir Neville Pearson. |
| 8 | Played the mother of Professor Henry Higgins in a Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951) television version of Pygmalion and the movie version of the musical My Fair Lady (1964). |
| 9 | In Italy, most of her films were dubbed by either Giovanna Scotto or Tina Lattanzi. She was occasionally dubbed by Rosetta Calavetta, Lola Braccini and Wanda Tettoni in the much-loved My Fair Lady (1964). |
| 10 | Ex-mother-in-law of Robert Hardy. |
| 11 | Grandmother of the author/critic/entertainer Sheridan Morley, Annabel Morley, Wilton Morley, Emma Hardy and Justine Hardy. |
| 12 | Twice nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actress (Dramatic) for her performances in Enid Bagnold's "The Chalk Garden" (1956) and in "A Passage to India" (1962). |
| 13 | Mother-in-law of Robert Morley. |
| 14 | Mother, with Sir Neville Pearson, of costume designer Sally Pearson. |
| 15 | Mother, with Herbert Buckmaster, of actors Joan Buckmaster and John Buckmaster. |
| 16 | Stepmother of John Merivale. |
| 17 | She was awarded the DBE (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1967 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to drama. |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
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| The Persuaders! | 1972 | TV Series | Grand Duchess Ozerov |
| The Doctors | 1971 | TV Series | Harriet Vey |
| The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens | 1970 | TV Movie | Mrs. Ternan |
| A Nice Girl Like Me | 1969 | | Aunt Mary |
| The Happiest Millionaire | 1967 | | Aunt Mary |
| Callan | 1967 | TV Series | Dr. Schultz |
| Adam Adamant Lives! | 1967 | TV Series | Grand Duchess Vorokhov |
| The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. | 1966 | TV Series | Mama Rosha |
| Emergency-Ward 10 | 1965 | TV Series | Sister McInnes |
| Ben Casey | 1965 | TV Series | Dr. Hagar Brandt |
| The Rogues | 1964-1965 | TV Series | Margaret St. Clair |
| The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | 1963-1964 | TV Series | Laura / Mrs. Raydon |
| My Fair Lady | 1964 | | Mrs. Higgins |
| The Twilight Zone | 1962-1964 | TV Series | Elva Keene / Millie McKenzie / Wanda Dunn |
| The Outer Limits | 1963 | TV Series | Mrs. Palmer |
| Burke's Law | 1963 | TV Series | Harriet Richards |
| The List of Adrian Messenger | 1963 | | Mrs. Karoudjian |
| Going My Way | 1963 | TV Series | Mrs. Arnold Sedgewick |
| Pygmalion | 1963 | TV Movie | Mrs. Higgins |
| Fair Exchange | 1962 | TV Series | Nell |
| The Dick Powell Theatre | 1962 | TV Series | Margaret Langdon |
| Playdate | 1962 | TV Series | Mrs. Smith |
| Naked City | 1962 | TV Series | Mrs. Ernest Johns, Sr. |
| If the Crown Fits | 1961 | TV Series | Madam Olga |
| Rendezvous | 1960 | TV Series | Helen |
| ITV Play of the Week | 1960 | TV Series | Edith Salesby |
| Adventures in Paradise | 1959 | TV Series | Mrs. Maude Harper |
| Separate Tables | 1958 | | Mrs. Railton-Bell |
| The Ann Sothern Show | 1958 | TV Series | Duchess |
| Playhouse 90 | 1957-1958 | TV Series | Mrs. Allen / Mrs. Palmer / Mrs. Millet |
| Suspicion | 1958 | TV Series | Lady Windemere |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents | 1957 | TV Series | Marguerite Gillespie |
| The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial | 1957 | TV Series | Lady Tichborne |
| The Alcoa Hour | 1956 | TV Series | Aunt Pauline |
| The Man Who Loved Redheads | 1955 | | Caroline, Lady Binfield |
| At Sword's Point | 1952 | | Queen Anne |
| Thunder on the Hill | 1951 | | Mother Superior |
| BBC Sunday-Night Theatre | 1950 | TV Series | The Queen Mother of Persia |
| Madame Bovary | 1949 | | Mme. Dupuis |
| The Secret Garden | 1949 | | Mrs. Medlock |
| Homecoming | 1948 | | Mrs. Kirby |
| The Pirate | 1948 | | Aunt Inez |
| The Bishop's Wife | 1947 | | Mrs. Hamilton |
| Green Dolphin Street | 1947 | | Sophie Patourel |
| The Cockeyed Miracle | 1946 | | Amy Griggs |
| Beware of Pity | 1946 | | Mrs. Klara Condor |
| The Green Years | 1946 | | Grandma Leckie |
| Love Letters | 1945 | | Beatrice Remington |
| The Valley of Decision | 1945 | | Clarissa Scott |
| Mrs. Parkington | 1944 | | Alice - Duchess de Brancourt |
| The White Cliffs of Dover | 1944 | | Lady Jean Ashwood |
| The Song of Bernadette | 1943 | | Sister Marie Therese Vauzous |
| Princess O'Rourke | 1943 | | Miss Haskell |
| Mr. Lucky | 1943 | | Captain Veronica Steadman |
| Forever and a Day | 1943 | | Mrs. Barringer |
| Now, Voyager | 1942 | | Mrs. Henry Vale |
| Eagle Squadron | 1942 | | Aunt Emmeline |
| This Above All | 1942 | | Iris Cathaway |
| The Gay Falcon | 1941 | | Maxine Wood |
| A Yank in the R.A.F. | 1941 | | Mrs. Pillby (scenes deleted) |
| The Black Cat | 1941 | | Myrna Hartley |
| That Hamilton Woman | 1941 | | Lady Frances Nelson |
| Kitty Foyle | 1940 | | Mrs. Strafford |
| Rebecca | 1940 | | Beatrice Lacy |
| The Iron Duke | 1934 | | Duchess d'Angouleme |
| Bonnie Prince Charlie | 1923 | | Flora MacDonald |
| The Bohemian Girl | 1922 | | Arlene Arnheim |
| Headin' North | 1921 | | Madge Mullin |
| Unmarried | 1920 | | |
| My Lady's Dress | 1917 | | The Wife |
| Masks and Faces | 1917 | | Mabel Vane |
| The Sorrows of Satan | 1917 | | Lady Sybil Elton |
| The Real Thing at Last | 1916 | Short | American Witch |
| Danny Donovan, the Gentleman Cracksman | 1914 | Short | Mrs. Ashworth |
| The Eleventh Commandment | 1913 | Short | Edith |
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