Maggie Smith: A Biography (47 page)

Oxford High School for Girls

Oxford Playhouse

Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS)

Page, Anthony

Page, Geraldine

Pakula, Alan J.

Palin, Michael

Palmer, Lilli

Parker, Jamie

Parker, Ol

Parker, Thane

Parkinson, Michael

Passage to India, A
(film)

Patel, Dev

Paterson, Bill

Patterson, Tom

Pearson, Richard

Pennell, Nicholas

Peter, John

Petherbridge, Edward

Phantom of the Opera, The
(musical)

Phillips, Robin

Phillips, Siân

Pickford, Mary

Pickup, Ronald

Pigott-Smith, Tim

Pinero, Arthur Wing

The Magistrate

Trelawny of the Wells

Pinter, Harold

The Birthday Party

The Caretaker

The Homecoming

No Man’s Land

Planchon, Roger

Pleasence, Donald

Plowman, Anna-Louise

Plowright, Joan

and
Tea with Mussolini

Plummer, Christopher

Poel, William

Poitier Sidney

Poliakoff, Stephen

Capturing Mary

Coming in to Land

Porter, Cole

Porter, Eric

Porter, Nyree Dawn

Postlethwaite, Pete

Potter, Dennis

Powell, Anthony

Powell, Dilys

Power, Tyrone

Power sisters

Presley, Elvis

Presson Allen, Jay

Price, Dennis

Prick Up Your Ears
(film)

Priestley, J. B.

Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The
(film)

Private Function, A
(film)

Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The
(film)

Privates on Parade
(film)

Proust, Marcel

Pryce, Jonathan

Pryce-Jones, Alan

Pryor Richard

Pumpkin Eater, The
(film)

Purnell, Louise

Purser, Philip

Puttnam, David

Quartet
(1981 film)

Quartet
(Dustin Hoffman film)

Quinn, Patricia

Quintero, José

RADA

Radcliffe, Daniel

Rain, Douglas

Raine, Kathleen

Ramsay, Peggy

Ramsay, Remak

Ratcliffe, Michael

Rathbone, Basil

Rattigan, Terence

Rawlings, Margaret

Rawnsley, John

Redgrave, Lynn

Redgrave, Michael

Redgrave, Vanessa

Reece, Dizzy

Reed, Rex

Reid, Kate

Reinhardt, Django

Reinhardt, Max

Reisz, Karel

Rhys, Jean

Rich, Frank

Richardson, Miranda

Richardson, Natasha

Richardson, Ralph

Richardson, Tony

Rickman, Alan

Rigg, Diana

Robb, David

Roberts, Julia

Roberts, Rachel

Robertson, Toby

Robinson, David

Robson, Flora

Rogers, Doris

Ronstadt, Linda

Room with a View, A
(film)

Rose, Clifford

Ross, Harold

Ross, Herbert

Rossington, Norman

Rota, Nino

Roth, Tim

Routledge, Patricia

Rowlandson, Thomas

Royal Film Performances

Rudin, Scott

Russell Beale, Simon

Russo, Richard

Rutherford, Margaret

Ryall, David

Salinger, J. D.

Samson and Delilah
(film)

Sands, Julian

Santini, Bruno

Saunders, James,
A Scent of Flowers

Savages, The
(TV play)

Scarlet Pimpernel, The

Schlesinger, John

Schnitzler, Arthur,
La Ronde

see also Snap

Scofield, Paul

Scott, George C.

Scott, Hutchinson

Scott, Janette

Scott Thomas, Kristin

Scully, Terry

Secombe, Harry

Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The
(film)

Secret Garden, The
(film)

Sellers, Peter

Selznick, Irene

Shaffer, Anthony

Murderer

Sleuth

Shaffer, Peter

Amadeus

Black Comedy

Equus

Five Finger Exercise

Lettice and Lovage

The Private Ear
and
The Public Eye

The Royal Hunt of the Sun

Shakespeare, William

All’s Well That Ends Well

Antony and Cleopatra

As You Like It

Coriolanus

Hamlet

Henry V

King John

King Lear

Love’s Labour’s Lost

Macbeth

Measure for Measure

The Merchant of Venice

The Merry Wives of Windsor

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Much Ado About Nothing

Othello

Richard II

Richard III

Romeo and Juliet

Twelfth Night

Shakespeare in Love
(film)

Share My Lettuce
(revue)

Sharkey, James

Shaw, Fiona

Shaw, George Bernard

The Millionairess

Saint Joan

Shelley, Elsa,
The Pick-Up Girl

Shelley, Frank

Shepard, Sam

Sheridan, R. B.,
The School for Scandal

Sherrin, Ned

Shulman, Milton

Signoret, Simone

Sillman, Leonard

Simmons, Jean

Simon, Neil

Plaza Suite

Promises, Promises

Sims, Jeanie

Sinden, Donald

Sister Act
(film)

Skinner, Claire

Slumdog Millionaire
(film)

Smith, Alistair (MS’s brother)

his death

Smith, Angus

Smith, Ian (MS’s brother)

Smith, Liz

Smith, Maggie

adapts to ageing

and Alistair’s death

altercations

American début

appears on chat show

appointed CBE

appointed Companion of Honour

appointed DBE

attends improvisation workshops

attends Olivier’s funeral

and Beverley’s death

birth of Christopher

birth of Toby

and campness

career recovers in Canada

‘cleansing-out period’

comic timing

early films

early relationship with Beverley

early relationship with Robert

early television work

family and childhood

and father’s death

features in press articles

her hair

health problems

house-hunting and Tigbourne Court

insistence on good taste

interest in Catholicism

joins National Theatre

joins Old Vic

and letter-writing

London début

love of reading

and mannered acting

marriage with Beverley

marriage with Robert

and mother’s death

Oxford admirers

pessimism

photography sessions

piano playing

quits smoking

rejected by Charles Laughton

relationship with her mother

relationship with Rod Taylor

relationship with sons

schooldays

sense of privacy

social life in Canada

theatrical beginnings

visits Australia

wit and mimicry

R
EVUES:

Cakes and Ale

Listen to the Wind
(musical)

New Faces

On the Mile

Oxford Accents

Oxford Eight

Share My Lettuce

P
LAYS:

Antony and Cleopatra

As You Like It

The Beaux’ Stratagem

Bed Among the Lentils

Black Comedy

A Bond Honoured

The Breath of Life

Coming in to Land

The Country Wife

A Delicate Balance

Design for Living

The Double Dealer

The Government Inspector

The Guardsman

Hay Fever

He Who Gets Slapped

Hedda Gabler

The Housemaster

The Importance of Being Earnest

The Infernal Machine

Interpreters

The Lady from Dubuque

The Lady in the Van

Lettice and Lovage

Macbeth

The Magistrate

The Master Builder

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Much Ado About Nothing

Mary, Mary

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Miss Julie

Murder in the Cathedral

Night and Day

The Ortolan

Othello

Peter Pan

The Pick-Up Girl

The Private Ear
and
The Public Eye

Private Lives

The Recruiting Officer

The Rehearsal

Rhinoceros

Richard II

Richard III

The School for Scandal

The Seagull

Snap

The Stepmother

Strip the Willow

Three Sisters

Three Tall Women

Trelawny of the Wells

Twelfth Night

Virginia

The Way of the World

What Every Woman Knows

T
ELEVISION:

All the King’s Men

Bed Among the Lentils

Boy Meets Girl

Capturing Mary

David Copperfield

Double Your Money

Downton Abbey

For Services Rendered

Hay Fever

Home and Beauty

Lily in Love

Memento Mori

The Merchant of Venice

The Millionairess

Mrs Silly

My House in Umbria

On Approval

Penelope

The Savages

Suddenly, Last Summer

Washington Square

F
ILMS:

Becoming Jane

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Better Late Than Never

California Suite

Clash of the Titans

Death on the Nile

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Evil Under the Sun

The First Wives Club

From Time to Time

Go to Blazes

Gosford Park

Harry Potter

The Honeypot

Hook

Hot Millions

It All Came True

Keeping Mum

Ladies in Lavender

The Lady in the Van

The Last September

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing

The Missionary

Murder by Death

My Old Lady

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang

Nowhere to Go

Oh, What a Lovely War!

Othello

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

A Private Function

The Pumpkin Eater

Quartet
(1981 film)

Quartet
(Dustin Hoffman film)

Richard III

A Room with a View

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

The Secret Garden

Sister Act

Tea with Mussolini

Travels with my Aunt

The VIPs

Young Cassidy

Smith, Meg (MS’s mother)

her death

and
Miss Jean Brodie

Smith, Nat (MS’s father)

his death

friendship with Beverley Cross

and Meg’s death

Smith, Shân (MS’s sister-in-law)

Smith, Stevie

Soames, Mary

Soldiering On
(Bennett)

Somerville, Geraldine

Sondheim, Stephen

Sound of Music, The
(film)

Spall, Timothy

Spark, Muriel

see also
Memento Mori
;
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Spewack, Bella and Sam

Spielberg, Steven

Spiven, Jeremy

Spriggs, Elizabeth

Stack, Violet

Standing, John

Stanislavsky, Konstantin

Stanley, Kim

Star Wars
(film)

Stark, Ray

Starlight Express
(musical)

Statham, Keith

Staunton, Imelda

Steadman, Alison

Steele, Tommy

Stegers, Bernice

Steinem, Gloria

Stephens, Christopher,
see
Larkin, Chris

Stephens, Lucy

Stephens, Robert

and acting partnership

his death

early relationship with Maggie

and
Hedda Gabler

house-hunting and Tigbourne Court

late career

marriage break-up

marriage with Maggie

and
Miss Jean Brodie

and
Private Lives

relationship with sons