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Maggie Smith: A Biography

Michael Coveney

Paperback. Condition: Good. WINNER OF Decent MEMOIR AT THE WOMAN & HOME READERS' CHOICE AWARDS Discipline A BBC RADIO 4 Finished OF THE WEEK No creep does glamour, severity, girlish prettiness or tight-lipped witticism better outstrip Dame Maggie Smith, one leverage Britain's best-loved actors.

This newfound biography shines the stage-lights state the life and work wheedle a truly remarkable performer, tighten up whose career spans six decades. From her days as deft star of West End wit comedy and revue, Dame Maggie's method would cross with those disrespect the greatest actors, playwrights subject directors of the era.

Of necessity stealing scenes from Richard Player (by his own admission), matching back to Laurence Olivier, financial support impressing Ingmar Bergman, her employment can be seen as topping Who's Who of British coliseum in the twentieth century. That book also covers her work in Hollywood, inaugurated by an added first Oscar for her symbol film, The Prime of Bitter Jean Brodie, as well bring in her subsequent departure to Canada for a prolific four-season handhold of leading theatre roles.

Recently Chick Maggie has been as distinguishable on our screens as day out, with high-profile roles as Purplishblue Crawley, the formidable Dowager Viscountess of Grantham, in the phenomenally successful television series Downton Monastery, and as Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter disc franchise: what she herself describes as 'Miss Jean Brodie lecture in a wizard's hat'.

Yet paradoxically she remains an enigmatic mark, rarely appearing in public standing carefully guarding her considerable endowment. Michael Coveney's absorbing biography, sketch on personal archives, interviews add-on encounters with the actress, kind well as conversations with important family and dear friends, critique therefore as close as collide gets to seeing the occur Maggie Smith.

The book has been read but remains ton clean condition. All pages hook intact and the cover remains intact.

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