Gertie Lawrence

“I am not what you'd call wonderfully talented, but I am light on my feet and I do make the best of things.” So said Gertrud Alexandra Dagmar Klasen with cute understatement; At ten Gertie met a boy named Noel Coward, who wrote, “She gave me an orange and told me a few mildly dirty stories, and I loved her from then onwards.” Noel and Gertie were passionate friends for life and his plays gave her emotional depth.