Hermione Gingold
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Hermione Gingold was an English actress known for her sharp-tongued, eccentric persona, an image enhanced by her sharp nose and chin, as well as her deepening voice, a result of vocal nodes which her mother reportedly encouraged her not to remove. She starred on stage, on radio, in films, on television
Television
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, and in recordings. She also appeared on the NBC
NBC
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 interview program Here's Hollywood
Here's Hollywood
Here's Hollywood is an American celebrity interview program which aired on weekday afternoons on NBC at 4:30 Eastern time from September 26, 1960, to December 28, 1962.-Overview:...

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Born Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold in London
London
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, England
England
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, she was the daughter of a high-standing Vienna
Vienna
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-born Jewish financier James Gingold and Kate Walter or Walters, an English
England
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-born housewife.
 
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