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Maggie Smith : a biography / Michael Coveney.

Coveney, Michael 1948- (author.).

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Beacon Falls Public Library B SMI COV (Text to phone) 33120000375425 Adult Biography Available -
Bethel Public Library BIO SMITH (Text to phone) 34030133669371 Adult Biography Available -
Burnham Library - Bridgewater B SMITH (Text to phone) 36937002140821 Adult Biography Available -
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown B SMITH, M. (Text to phone) 34014136916617 Adult Biography Available -
David M. Hunt Library - Falls Village B SMITH (Text to phone) 33180123738131 Adult New Biography Available -
Douglas Library of Hebron 792.028 SMITH (Text to phone) 33400134699522 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe 92 SMITH (MAGGIE) (Text to phone) 34026134307086 Adult Biography Available -
Kent Library Association - Kent B SMI (Text to phone) 33410130723986 Adult Biography Available -
Kent Memorial Library - Suffield 792.028092 SMITH (Text to phone) 32518133937477 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Mark Twain Library Association - Redding 792.02 Cov (Text to phone) 33620128519465 Adult Nonfiction Available -
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General Note: Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note: Preview: In the company of a secret star -- The flight from Ilford -- Schooling in Oxford accents -- Clown of town and gown -- New Revue and Old Vic -- West End calling, screen testing -- Surprises with Olivier at the National -- Romance with the new Lunts -- The prime of Miss Maggie Smith -- Prickly pain in Private lives -- Canada home and dry -- Salvation in Stratford, Stoppard and Virginia Woolf -- Best of British pork and Palin -- Millamant, Poliakoff and Poppy Cocteau -- A toast to the Bard with Levin and Lettice -- Alone without God -- Tales of ageing, innocence and experience -- Secrets and lies in Yorkshire and Italy -- Onstage with Albee, Bennett and Hare -- TV specials for the lady from Dubuque -- Goodbye Hollywood, hello British comedy -- Harry Potter and Downton Abbey -- Late flowering of marigolds around the van -- Overview: In old glory and new celebrity.
Summary, etc.: "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 are 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"--

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Subject: Smith, Maggie 1934-
Actors Great Britain Biography
Genre: Biographies.
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