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British actress, born in London, on January 20, 1898. Norma was born and raised in London to a retired captain and a mother many years younger than him. Norma learned to play the piano in Paris and participated in concerts in London when she was a teenager, and she continued to...Read more study music at Goldhall School. Then she performed in theater performances in roles much older than her age, and excelled in Shakespearean roles such as the wandering Jew in 1920 and Hamlet in 1925. She found herself in roles of comedy, to join the Marx Brothers Troupe, which led her to the British cinema. She mainly performed secondary roles. Her most important works include: Strangers on a Train (1951), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), Witness for the Prosecution (1957) and The Sound of Music (1965). She died in Santa Barbara, California, on January 19, 1989 from a heart attack.


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  • British actress, born in London, on January 20, 1898. Norma was born and raised in London to a retired captain and a mother many years younger than him. Norma learned to play the...Read more piano in Paris and participated in concerts in London when she was a teenager, and she continued to study music at Goldhall School. Then she performed in theater performances in roles much older than her age, and excelled in Shakespearean roles such as the wandering Jew in 1920 and Hamlet in 1925. She found herself in roles of comedy, to join the Marx Brothers Troupe, which led her to the British cinema. She mainly performed secondary roles. Her most important works include: Strangers on a Train (1951), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), Witness for the Prosecution (1957) and The Sound of Music (1965). She died in Santa Barbara, California, on January 19, 1989 from a heart attack.

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