(by conversion). The two aspects came together in a story of her standing outside Brompton Oratory after Sunday mass when an actor came up to her with gossip about who was sleeping with someone else's wife. She stopped him in his tracks with: "I don't want to hear this filth. Not with me standing here in a state of fucking grace." Alan Bennett: "When I said to Coral that I’d thought [Cecil] Beaton was gay she remarked, 'Not when he was with me, darling. Like a rat up a drainpipe.'" The younger Australian performer Barry Humphries paid tribute to Browne at her memorial service with an appropriate poem: "She left behind an emptiness/A gap, a void, a trough/The world is quite a good deal less/Since Coral Browne fucked off." Biographies Browne was the subject of a biography, The Coral Browne Story: Theatrical Life and Times of a Lustrous Australian, by Barbara Angell. This was published May 2007 and launched at the Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, on 14 June of that year. Coral Browne: 'This Effing Lady''', by Rose Collis, published by Oberon Books, was launched at the Royal National Theatre, 4 October 2007. In 2018, an Australian stage play Coral Browne – This F***ing Lady was staged by Maureen Sherlock starring Genevieve Mooy as Browne. Filmography Film Television Notable stage A Warm Corner Comedy Theatre, Melbourne c. 1930 The Roof Comedy Theatre, Melbourne 1931 Loyalties Comedy Theatre, Melbourne May 1931 Hay Fever The Quaker Girl The Apple Cart Dear Brutus Hedda Gabler Children in Uniform Melbourne Command to Love Melbourne Mated 1934 or 1935 Lover's Leap, Vaudeville Theatre London 1935 Basalik, London Arts Theatre Club 1935 Desirable Residence, Embassy Theatre London 1935 Heroes Don't Care, St. Martin's Theatre, London 10 June 1936 The Taming of the Shrew, New London Theatre 1936–1937 The Great Romancer, New London Theatre 1937 The Gusher, Prince's Theatre, London 1937 Believe It Or Not, New Theatre, London March 1940 The Man Who Came to Dinner, Theatre Royal, Birmingham, England, 17 November 1941 The Man Who Came to Dinner, Savoy Theatre, London, 4 December 1941–42 My Sister Eileen, Savoy Theatre, London, 1943 The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, Savoy Theatre, London 1943–44 Lady Frederick, Savoy Theatre, London, November 1946 Lady Frederick, Grand Theatre, Blackpool, 21 April 1947 Lady Frederick, Theatre Royal, Brighton, 16 June 1947 Canaries Sometimes Sing, Grand Theatre, Blackpool, 3 November 1947 Castle in the Air,