Once A Wicked Lady
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Scans of the book are here. This book has hardly been scanned anywhere and it is worthy of further analysis when you consider there isn't much on the market abut her life and work. Such an important British actress - this is definately worth a read.
Long since deleted title released in the year before her death in 1990. Covers up to her last days at her home in Kingson-Upon-Thames, near Richmond Park. Plus lavished with rare photos.
Margaret Lockwood was the most popular and successful British screen
actress
of the 1940s and at the height of her career acquired legendary status
in films like The Man In Grey, with
James Mason, and Alfred Hitchcock's
The Lady Vanishes. But above all it was her starring role in The Wicked
Lady which won her a lasting place in the hearts of the film-going
public and which established her, uniquely among British actresses at
the time, as not merely glamourous but dangerous and sexy as well.
This biography of Margaret Lockwood gives her full story for the first
time, a story embracing depths of difficulty and sadness unsuspected by
her public, either in her heyday or at any time since. Behind her calm,
contained facade lay an increasingly bitter relationship with her
mother, ending in a devastating betrayal; a short-lived marriage; the
struggle to bring up a child; and the men who were able to give her the
love she so desperately needed but whom she could not keep.
Set against her personal struggle for happiness, Once A Wicked Lady
also reveals the inside story of
Margaret Lockwood's career. She was
the first British actress to be groomed especially as a film star,
making her film debut in Lorna Doone (1935) at the age of nineteen.
Directed by giants of the cinema - Carol Reed, Alfred Hitchcock, Michael
Powell - for the next twenty years her career was uninterrupted, her
popularity unrivalled.
She made a brief foray to Hollywood in 1939, but worked mostly in
Britain and not only in films: stage appearances for which she is
fondly remembered include Peter Pan, in which she starred three times
(once with her daughter Julia playing
Wendy);
Eliza Doolittle
in
Pygmalion (Edinburgh, 1951);
The Spider's Web, written
especially for
her by Agatha Christie; and An Ideal Husband, in which she led an
all-star cast including Richard Todd,
Michael Denison and
Dulcie Gray.
She also successfully made the transition to television, playing the
lead in the courtroom series Justice, which ran for three years, amply
demonstrating the resilience of her star quality.
Hilton Tims has worked from many hours of taped interviews with
Margret Lockwood, her friends and colleagues. The result is an
impeccably researched and richly illustrated study, laying bare the life
of a talented but vulnerable woman for whom the public has an enduring
and affectionate memory.
Hilton Tims grew up in Ellesmere, Shropshire, Where, as an under-age
youngster, he smuggled himself into the town's cinema to see The
Wicked Lady four days running.
He began his career as a journalist in Cheshire. Since then he has been
film critic for The Bristol Evening World
and the United Newspapers
Group; theatre and music critic for The Daily Mail in
Manchester; and
video columnist for Options magazine. He has also worked for the Daily
Mail in Fleet Street And for the BBC.
In addition to books on the cinema, Hilton Tims
is the author of two
historical novels, All The Pride Of Power
and Prelude. Married to
journalist and author Jane Sampson, he lives in Kingston upon Thames.
As per scans below. Used - Good. Dust jacket has wear in places and small tear at bottom of spine of dust jacket. Book itself is fine with clean pages and no creasing at tips of paper (see scans).
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