Maggie Smith: A Biography (48 page)
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Authors: Michael Coveney
Stephens, Toby
acting career
life in Canada
relationship with mother
Stevens, Dan
Stoppard, Tom
Night and Day
Storey, David,
Home
Stott, Catherine
Stott, Judith
Stride, John
Strindberg, August
Miss Julie
Suddenly, Last Summer
(TV play)
Sullivan, Dan
Sullivan, Ed
Supremes, the
Sutherland, Donald
Swift, Jeremy
Syms, Sylvia
Tandy, Jessica
Taylor, Elizabeth
Taylor, Laurette
Taylor, Paul
Taylor, Rod
Te Kanawa, Kiri
Tea with Mussolini
(film)
Tearle, Godfrey
Tempest, Marie
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Terry, Ellen
Terry, Fred
Terry-Thomas
Thomas, Jonathan
Thomas, Sian
Thompson, Emma
Thorndike, Sybil
Thorne, Angela
Tigbourne Court
Till, Eric
Tinker, Jack
Todd, Richard
Tomlin, Lily
Tomlinson, David
Topolski, Feliks
Toynbee, Polly
Tracy, Spencer
Travels with my Aunt
(film)
Trevelyan, Hilda
Trevor, William
Trow, Thomas
Trump, Ivana
Tufts, Sonny
Tutin, Dorothy
Twain, Mark
Tynan, Kenneth
and National Theatre productions
profile of Maggie Smith
Tyzack, Margaret
United British Artists
Ure, Gudrun
Ustinov, Peter
The Love of Four Colonels
van Beers, Isabel
van Thal, Dennis
Variety Club awards
Vidal, Gore
Villiers, James
VIPs, The
(film)
Wadsworth, Andrew C.
Walker, Nancy
Wallace, Nellie
Wallach, Ira
Walliams, David
Walters, Julie
Walton, Tony
Waltz, Christoph
Wanamaker, Zoë
War Horse
(Stafford)
Wardle, Irving
Warner, David
Warner, Deborah
Warnock, Mary
Washington Square
(TV film)
see also
The Heiress
Watson, Emma
Watson, Moray
Waugh, Evelyn
Wayne, John
Webb, Leonard
Welch, Raquel
Welch, Sandy
Weldon, Duncan
Welland, Colin
Welles, Orson
Wells, Rebecca
Wesker, Arnold
Weston, Jennifer
Wetherall, Jack
Wheeler, Hugh
White, Michael
Whitelaw, Billie
Whitemore, Hugh
The Best of Friends
Stevie
Whiting, John
Wilde, Oscar
see also The Importance of Being Earnest
Wilder, Billy
Wilder, Thornton
Our Town
The Skin of Our Teeth
Wildman, Carl
Wilkinson, Tom
Williams, Finty
Williams, Kenneth
Williams, Michael
Williams, Robin
Williams, Tennessee
A Streetcar Named Desire
see also Suddenly, Last Summer
Wilson, Cecil
Wilson, Hugh
Wilson, Lambert
Wilson, Lou
Wilson, Ruth
Wilson, Sandy
Wilton, Penelope
Winchell, Walter
Windsor, Frank
Wizard of Oz, The
(film)
Wolf, Matt
Wolfit, Donald
Woman in Black, The
(film)
Wood, John
Wood, Peter
Woodvine, John
Woolf, Virginia
Worth, Irene
Wrede, Casper
Wright, Bonnie
Wycherley, William,
The Country Wife
Wyler, William
Wynter, Danny Lee
Yates, Peter
Yeats, W. B.
Young, B. A.
Young Cassidy
(film)
Zanuck, Daryl F.
Zeffirelli, Franco
Zeigfeld Follies
(revue)
The Citz: 21 Years of the Glasgow Citizens Theatre
(1990)
The Aisle is Full of Noises
(1994)
The World According to Mike Leigh
(1996)
Knight Errant: Memoirs of a Vagabond Actor
(with Robert Stephens) (1996)
Cats on a Chandelier: The Andrew Lloyd Webber Story
(1999)
Ken Campbell: The Great Caper
(2011)
WhatsOnStage
MICHAEL COVENEY
is one of Britain’s most respected theater critics and has written about theatre for over three decades, as editor of
Plays and Players
, and as staff critic on the
Financial Times, Observer
and
Daily Mail
. His books include a history of the Glasgow Citizens Theatre and biographies of Maggie Smith, Mike Leigh and Andrew Lloyd Webber. He regularly contributes to the
Independent, Guardian, Observer, New Statesman, Prospect
and BBC Radio’s Front Row. He lives in England. You can sign up for author updates
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Preview: In the Company of a Secret Star
5 West End Calling, Screen Testing
6 Surprises with Olivier at the National
8 The Prime of Miss Maggie Smith
9 Prickly Pain in Private Lives
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
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
MAGGIE SMITH.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Coveney, Michael, 1948–
Maggie Smith : a biography / Michael Coveney.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-250-08148-3 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4668-9339-9 (e-book)
1. Smith, Maggie, 1934– 2. Actors—Great Britain—Biography. I. Title.
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First published in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group, an Hachette UK company
First U.S. Edition: December 2015