Maggie Smith A Biography by Coveney 9781466893399 1466893397

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• ISBN 10: 1466893397
• ISBN 13: 9781466893399
• Author: Michael Coveney

This perfect gift book for fans of Downton Abbey will take them behind the scenes of the Grand Dame who brings the Dowager Countess to life.

No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm or tight-lipped witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith. Michael Coveney’s biography shines a light on the life and career of a truly remarkable performer, one whose stage and screen 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, answering back to Laurence Olivier, or playing opposite Judi Dench in Breath of Life, her career can be seen as a ‘Who’s Who’ of British theatre. Her film and television career has been just as starry. From the title character in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and the meddling chaperone in A Room With a View to the Harry Potter films in which she played Minerva McGonagall (as she put it ‘Miss Jean Brodie in a wizard’s hat’) and the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel films in which she played the wise Muriel Donnelly, Smith has thrilled, engaged and made audiences laugh. As Violet Crawley, the formidable Dowager Countess of Downton Abbey she conquered millions more. Paradoxically she remains an enigmatic figure, rarely appearing in public.

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 a portrait of one of the greatest actors of our time.

Table contents:

1: The Flight from Ilford
2: Schooling in Oxford Accents
3: Clown of Town and Gown
4: New Revue and Old Vic
5: West End Calling, Screen Testing
6: Surprises with Olivier at the National
7: Romance with the New Lunts
8: The Prime of Miss Maggie Smith
9: Prickly Pain in Private Lives
10: Canada Home and Dry
11: Salvation in Stratford, Stoppard and Virginia Woolf
12: Best of British Pork and Palin
13: Millamant, Poliakoff and Poppy Cocteau
14: A Toast to the Bard with Levin and Lettice
15: Alone without God
16: Tales of Ageing, Innocence and Experience
17: Secrets and Lies in Yorkshire and Italy
18: Onstage with Albee, Bennett and Hare
19: TV Specials for the Lady from Dubuque
20: Goodbye Hollywood, Hello British Comedy
21: Harry Potter and Downton Abbey
22: Late Flowering of Marigolds around the Van

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