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An edition of Maggie Smith (2015)

Maggie Smith

a biography

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No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm or tight-lipped witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith, one of Britain's best-loved actors. This new biography shines the stage-lights on the life and work of a truly remarkable performer, one whose career spans six decades. From her days as a West End star of comedy and revue, Dame Maggie's path would cross with those of the greatest actors, playwrights and directors of the era. Whether stealing scenes from Richard Burton (by his own admission), answering back to Laurence Olivier, or impressing Ingmar Bergman, her career can be seen as a Who's Who of British theatre in the twentieth century. This book also covers her success in Hollywood, inaugurated by her first Oscar for her signature film, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, as well as her subsequent departure to Canada for a prolific four-season run of leading theatre roles. Recently Dame Maggie has been prominent on our screens as ever, with high-profile roles as Violet Crawley, the formidable Dowager Countess of Grantham, in the phenomenally successful television series Downton Abbey, and as Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter film franchise: what she herself describes as 'Miss Jean Brodie in a wizard's hat'. Yet paradoxically she remains an enigmatic figure, rarely appearing in public and carefully guarding her considerable talent. Michael Coveney's absorbing biography, written with the actress's blessing and drawing on personal archives, as well as interviews with immediate family and close friends, is therefore as close as it gets to seeing the real Maggie Smith.

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Maggie Smith: a biography
2016
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Maggie Smith: a biography
2015, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Weidenfeld And Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Edition Notes

Published in
London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
792/.028/092
Library of Congress
PN2598.S55 C67 2015, PN2598

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 353 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates
Number of pages
353

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28366343M
ISBN 10
1474600239, 1474601146, 1474600948
ISBN 13
9781474600231, 9781474601146, 9781474600941
OCLC/WorldCat
920376809
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B00VRT926Q

Work Description

Shining a light on the life of a truly remarkable performer whose stage and screen career spans six decades, this absorbing biography, written with Dame Maggie's blessing and drawing on personal archives and interviews, is a portrait of one of the greatest actors of our time.

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