Trivia

One of the many celebrities who feuded with controversial gossip columnist Dorothy Kilgallen. In fact, one night Gingold appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1957) to be interviewed by Paar, who also was feuding with Kilgallen. When she walked out on stage she was carrying a picture of Kilgallen with a toilet seat as a frame.

Originally a dramatic actress with a coloratura soprano singing voice, her throaty purr developed and deepened as a result of vocal nodules, which her mother insisted she not remove.

Lost most of her hair in her '70s and wore a wig to hide it. When she auditioned for the Broadway show 'A Little Night Music' she used this as an advantage - to show how much she had in common with the elderly character she was playing, she finished her audition by removing her wig. The astonished producers hired her immediately.

Was nominated for Broadway's 1973 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Musical) for "A Little Night Music," a role she recreated in the film version of the same name, A Little Night Music (1977).

She was cremated at National Cremation Society in Woodside, New York. Her urn was entombed at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California within its Great Mausoleum.

Published the first installment of her autobiography 'The World is Square'(1945). She also wrote 'Autumn Should be Seen and Not Heard'.

Hobbies included collecting china and interior decorating.

Often paired in stage revues with Hermione Baddeley; they also made occasional films together. However, in real life they were emphatically not friends and often made rude remarks about each other.

She appeared in two Best Picture Academy Award winners: Around the World in 80 Days (1956) and Gigi (1958).

Appeared in three films nominated for the "Best Picture" Oscar: Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Gigi (1958), and The Music Man (1962). Of those, both "Around the World in 80 Days" and "Gigi" won the award.

Children from first marriage: sons Leslie and Stephen.

Made her stage debut in 1908 at Her Majesty's Theatre London in 'Pinkie and the Fairies'.

For her work in Gigi (1958), she's one of only 4 actresses to win the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in a motion picture without receiving an Oscar nomination for the same performance. The other 3 are, in chronological order: Katy Jurado in High Noon (1952), Karen Black in The Great Gatsby (1974) and Katharine Ross in Voyage of the Damned (1976).

Winner of a Donaldson Award and a Hollywood Foreign Press Award.

Lived at 405 East 54th Street New York.

Her son, Stephen, founded the Stephen Joseph Theatre, a theatre-in-the-round, in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England.

Daughter of James Gingold and Kate (Walter).

Studied under Rosina Filipps.

She, Alfred Marks and Richard Attenborough were in a sketch called The Dooms in a radio program called Home at Eight in which she used a catch phrase 'Miluk Edmund'.

She married publisher Michael Joseph.