Australian actress Coral Browne was BOTD in 1913. Born in Melbourne, she studied art at the National Gallery Art School, and made her professional stage debut when she was 17. In 1934, she emigrated to England where she became an established stage and radio actress. During World War Two, she took up residence at the Savoy Hotel, purchasing the UK rights to George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart‘s comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner, which she starred in at the Savoy Theatre to great success. She became more widely known with a supporting role in the 1958 film Auntie Mame, and terrified audiences as a predatory lesbian in 1968’s The Killing of Sister George. The following year, she starred in the London premiere of Joe Orton‘s sex comedy What the Butler Saw. During the 1970s, she appeared with Peter O’Toole in the comedy film The Ruling Class, and in TV adaptations of Oscar Wilde‘s comedies Lady Windermere’s Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest. She had a late-career resurgence playing herself in Alan Bennett‘s TV film An Englishman Abroad, based on her 1958 encounter with gay spy Guy Burgess while she was touring in the Soviet Union. Directed by John Schlesinger and co-starring Alan Bates as Burgess, the role won her a BAFTA Television Award. Browne married actor Philip Pearman in 1950, frequently appearing together in stage productions. When told that there was no suitable role for Pearman in a production of Shakespeare‘s King Lear, she reportedly demanded he be cast as “a small camp near Dover“. After Pearman’s death, she married actor Vincent Price in 1974, her co-star in the comedy horror film Theatre of Blood. They had a cordial though apparently sexless marriage, widely assumed to be a cover for Price (and possibly Browne) to pursue same-sex affairs. Somewhat surprisingly, she also had an affair with queer photographer Cecil Beaton. When asked if Beaton was gay, she is reported to have responded “Not when he was with me, darling. Like a rat up a drainpipe.” Browne settled with Price in Los Angeles, becoming an American citizen in 1987. She died in 1991 aged 77. Her life and sexuality has been extensively debated by biographers, while her camp persona has inspired drag performers including Barry Humphries.