is the lead actress connected to any war?
Yes. Her second husband Richard Aldrich became a lieutenant in the United States Navy during World War II,
Gertrude Lawrence
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who played tuptim in the king and i Lawrence what is the story line ? It is about the experiences of Anna, a British schoolteacher hired as part of the King's drive to modernize his country is it based on a book? It is based on Margaret Landon's novel, Anna and the King of Siam has this author written other books? Anna and the King of Siam,Never Dies the Dream who is the lead actress in the above mentioned movie? Gertrude Lawrence' what was she before being an actress? Singer can you name few of her songs? UNANSWERABLE where is she from? Newington, London can you tell me what kind of media coverage the above mentioned movie got? UNANSWERABLE
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Gertrude Lawrence [SEP] World War II
Lawrence's second husband Richard Aldrich became a lieutenant in the United States Navy during World War II, during which time Lawrence had a standing invitation to perform for British troops from the head of the UK's Entertainments National Service Association. Her chief obstacle was getting from her home in Massachusetts to Britain. Aldrich was overseas at the time. In her 1945 memoir "A Star Danced", she recalled, "After weeks of more or less patient waiting, repeated timid, pleading, urgent and finally importunate requests to the authorities who rule such matters in Washington and London, and a rapid-fire barrage of telegrams, cables and telephone calls, it had happened.