Private Life and Last Years
Cooper was thrice married:
- Captain Herbert Buckmaster (12 December 1908–12 December 1921) (two children, John and Joan Buckmaster (1910–2005), who married the actor Robert Morley).
- English baronet Sir Neville Pearson (1927–1936); (one daughter, Sally Pearson (aka Sally Cooper) who was married from 1961 to 1986 to the actor Robert Hardy).
- English actor Philip Merivale (30 April 1937–12 March 1946). She lived for many years in Santa Monica, California, as a permanent resident alien with her third husband, until his death at age 59 from a heart ailment. Her stepson from this marriage was John Merivale.
She lived mostly in the United Kingdom in her final years and died from pneumonia at the age of 82 in Henley-on-Thames, England.
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