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Mrs Patrick Campbell
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(Beatrice Tanner, 1865–1940, m. Patrick Campbell 1884)
Actress who created the roles of Paula in The Second Mrs Tanqueray (1893) and of Eliza in Pygmalion (1914) – the play in which she caused a sensation with her delivery of the line 'Not bloody likely!'. Famous as a bewitching, witty and difficult woman (qualities evident in her long correspondence with Bernard Shaw), she is remembered for two characteristically spicy observations: that people's sexual practices are their own business, 'so long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses'; and that marriage is 'the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue'.
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