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Margaret Rutherford - Dreadnought With Good Manners: Andrew Merriman
Margaret Rutherford - Dreadnought With Good Manners: Andrew Merriman
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Margaret Rutherford was without a doubt one of Britain's best-loved comic actresses. But behind the kindly, serene front Rutherford presented to the world lay a life of trauma and repeated nervous breakdown - the legacy of the legacy of family tragedy that saw her father murder her grandfather during a bout of mental illness and her depressive mother later kill herself. Rutherford appeared in such thoroughly English classics as Blithe Spirit, The Importance of Being Earnest, Passport To Pimlico and I'm All Right, Jack! She was Miss Marple in four films - and entirely created for the screen the role of Agatha Christie's elderly and fearless private detective. But the laughter she inspired on screen masked a tragic personal life in which her purely platonic marriage to actor Stringer Davis lead her to forming unrequited crushes on unobtainable, younger men. A vulnerable woman, liked and respected by all, known for her quiet acts of kindness, whose life story has great appeal to everyone who appreciates both classic English comedy and simple human decency. Illustrated with black and white photographs.
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Autobiography/Bio/Non-Fiction, Large paperback; 1st paperback edition 2010 by Aurum Press; very light shelf wear; no spine creases; near fineShare
