Margaret Rutherford
Subtitle: dreadnought with good manners : a biography
By: by Andy Merriman.
Publisher: Aurum Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781845134457
Subjects: Rutherford, Margaret, -- 1892-1972; Motion picture actors and actresses -- Great Britain -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ( p. 278-280) and index.