Everley Gregg

Everley Gregg (26 October 1903, in Bishopstoke, Hampshire – 9 June 1959, in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire) was an English actress. Early in her career, she became associated especially with plays of Noël Coward. She began making films in the 1930s and added television roles in her last decade; she acted until her last year. Life and career Gregg was the daughter of Richard Russell Gregg and his wife Gertrude Everley, née Pope. She was educated at Badminton School, Bristol, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She made her professional stage debut as the maid in Noël Coward's Easy Virtue at the Duke of York's Theatre, London. Engagements in minor parts followed in The Constant Nymph, tours in Easy Virtue and Hit the Deck, and a repertory season at the Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham. In the West End in 1929, she succeeded Phyllis Konstam as Val Power in The Matriarch. Her association with the plays of Coward was renewed at the Phoenix Theatre in September 1930 when she played Louise in Private Lives. Her West End roles in the early 1930s were Mrs. Agnew in Five Farthings (1931), the telephone girl in Grand Hotel (1931), Georgina in Stepdaughters of War, Ruth in Dance With No Music (1932), Mrs. Gilbard in Behold, We Live (1933), Susanne in Love For Sale, and Miss Goslett in Coward's Conversation Piece (1934).