Maggie Smith: A BiographyThis 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. |
Contents
In the Company of a Secret Star | 1 |
The Flight from Ilford | 14 |
Schooling in Oxford Accents | 21 |
Margaret aged three | 24 |
Clown of Town and Gown | 32 |
New Revue and Old Vic | 45 |
West End Calling Screen Testing | 60 |
Surprises with Olivier at the National | 75 |
Salvation in Stratford Stoppard and Virginia Woolf | 150 |
Best of British Pork and Palin | 173 |
Millamant Poliakoff and Poppy Cocteau | 189 |
A Toast to the Bard with Levin and Lettice | 202 |
Alone without God | 211 |
Tales of Ageing Innocence and Experience | 224 |
Secrets and Lies in Yorkshire and Italy | 239 |
TV Specials for the Lady from Dubuque | 261 |
Romance with the New Lunts | 88 |
The Prime of Miss Maggie Smith | 101 |
Prickly Pain in Private Lives | 116 |
With her mother and brothers at Sandringham 1938 | 128 |
Canada Home and Dry | 134 |
Harry Potter and Downton Abbey | 281 |
Late Flowering of Marigolds around the Van | 302 |
Acknowledgements | 331 |
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