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Maggie Smith never does anything ‘merely’.

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Back in 1987  the celebrated British playwright  Peter Shaffer followed up the enormous success of his Tony Award-winning play Equus with a new play called Lettice and Lovage that he wrote especially for Maggie Smith (in her pre Dame days).  It centered around a flamboyant tour guide who loves to embellish the history behind an English country house and who … Continue reading



Marianne Breslauer’s 1930’s gender-bending women

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Marianne Breslauer’s career as a photographer in Berlin in the Weimer Republic was cut short with the advent of World War 2, and in fact only lasted from 1927 -1938.  Being Jewish she had trouble getting her work published in Germany so she emigrated to Amsterdam as the Nazis were gaining power, and then moved … Continue reading




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