Death
Vanbrugh was working to the end of her life. In November 1949 she appeared in Mary Bonaventure in its pre-London run in Birmingham, but was taken ill before the London opening, and died within days, several days before her 77th birthday.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“One is apt to be discouraged by the frequency with which Mr. Hardy has persuaded himself that a macabre subject is a poem in itself; that, if there be enough of death and the tomb in one’s theme, it needs no translation into art, the bold statement of it being sufficient.”
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