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  • | birth_place = [[Toronto]], Ontario, Canada ...}}</ref> in the [[BBC]] [[soap opera]] ''[[Compact (TV series)|Compact]]'' from 1964 to 1965. She played Mrs Van Schuyler in ''[[Lillie (TV series)|Lillie]
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  • ...' (both 1949), as well as a radio series, ''Meet the Huggetts'', which ran from 1953 to 1961.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radioechoes.com/?page=series&ge ...er age, but in 1992 she owned up to reaching 100 and received her telegram from the Queen. Harrison died in 1995 at the age of 103. She was predeceased by
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  • ...BC]] soap opera ''[[EastEnders]]'', a role which received positive reviews from critics and ''EastEnders'' crew and cast members. Furthermore, she appeared ...ed with [[Douglas Fairbanks Jr.]] in ''The Pleasure of his Company'', in [[Toronto]].<ref name="mla" /><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/o
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  • ...ead-born actress Patricia Routledge marks return to home town with reading from classic children's book|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-n ...Coyle Chase]] play ''[[Harvey (play)|Harvey]]'' (1944) – which closed in [[Toronto]] before reaching New York City.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Britain's Best |
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  • ...st a mere £23,000 to produce, it was a hit at the box office, with profits from its Australian release alone being £150,000.<ref name="bfireleases">[https ...as ''The Show Goes On''. The film, with a script featuring a contribution from [[Herman J. Mankiewicz]] (later to co-write ''[[Citizen Kane]]'' with [[Ors
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  • ...over seven decades and was one of Britain's most recognisable and prolific actresses.<ref name="britannica.com">{{Cite web |date=7 September 2023 |title=Maggie ...ow]], and her father, Nathaniel Smith, was a public-health [[pathologist]] from [[Newcastle upon Tyne]], who worked at the [[University of Oxford]].<ref na
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  • ...ought therefore to be treated as an alien."], '' 'Our Gracie' risked fall from grace over wartime marriage to Italian'', 21 Dec, 2021</ref> ...sh Heritage|website=English-heritage.org.uk}}</ref> Her career accelerated from this point, with [[Drama (art form)|dramatic]] performances and the beginni
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  • ...om the age of eight onwards were [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] actresses [[Veronica Lake|Veronica Lake]], [[Lana Turner|Lana Turner]] and [[Jean Har Dors often played characters suffering from unrequited love, and by the mid-1950s, she was known as "the English [[Mari
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  • ...-five episodes were made over four series. The Python phenomenon developed from the television series into something larger in scope and influence, includi ...th America, it has coloured the work of [[cult following|cult]] performers from the early editions of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' through to more recent [[
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