Dodie Smith (1896–1990)
Auteur de Le château de Cassandra
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Œuvres de Dodie Smith
HLa Icarica dei 101 1 exemplaire
VERY RARE 1948 1ST US EDITION I CAPTURE THE CASTLE SMITH ROMOLA GARAI FILM W/DJ [Hardcover] DODIE SMITH 1 exemplaire
The Starlight Barking by Dodie Smith (1967-10-01) 1 exemplaire
Os 101 dálmatas (Paradidáticos) (Portuguese Edition) 1 exemplaire
101 Dalmatians (Bk Block) 1 exemplaire
Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Your Daughter: I Capture the Castle & The Secret Garden (2012) 1 exemplaire
Hundred and One Dalmations, The 1 exemplaire
Lovers and friends : a play in three acts 1 exemplaire
New Orleans Mourning 1 exemplaire
101 Dalmatiner : nach dem Roman von Dodie Smith 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature: The World's Greatest Kids' Lit as Comics and Visuals (2014) — Contributeur — 90 exemplaires
101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure (Disney's Wonderful World of Reading) (2003) — Original characters — 88 exemplaires
101 Dalmatians (Disney 101 Dalmatians) (Step into Reading) (2015) — Original characters — 52 exemplaires
The Hundred and One Dalmatians (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3) (2001) — Original characters — 20 exemplaires
One Hundred and One Dalmatians Authorized Walt Disney Edition (1960) — Original story — 4 exemplaires
5 Books! 1) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time 2) I Capture the Castle 3) The Glass Castle 4) The Devil… (2001) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Smith, Dorothy Gladys Beesley
- Autres noms
- Anthony, C. L. (pseudonym)
Percy, Charles Henry (pseudonym) - Date de naissance
- 1896-05-03
- Date de décès
- 1990-11-24
- Lieu de sépulture
- Cremated, Ashes scattered.
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Pays (pour la carte)
- England, UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Whitefield, Lancashire, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Uttlesford, Essex, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Whitefield, Lancashire, England, UK
Manchester, England, UK
London, England, UK
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA - Études
- Academy of Dramatic Art
St. Paul's Girls' School - Professions
- children's book author
playwright
novelist
autobiographer
actor - Relations
- Heal, Ambrose (lover)
Barnes, Julian (literary executor) - Agent
- Laurence Fitch (estate agent)
- Courte biographie
- Dorothy "Dodie" Smith was born in Whitefield, Lancashire, England. Her father died when she was 18 months old, and her mother took her to live with her grandparents, aunts, and uncles in Manchester. Influenced by an uncle who was an amateur actor, Dodie went on the stage by age 13, playing boy's parts. Her mother remarried in 1910 and the family moved to London. Dodie enrolled in the Academy of Dramatic Art and pursued a career as an actress for several years, with little success. In 1923, she gave up acting and took a job as a toy buyer for a department store. In 1929, she went to Leipzig, Germany for the annual toy fair, and spent some time with a friend at an inn in a small German village. On her return to England, she wrote a play, Autumn Crocus (1931), which became a hit. The "girl playwright," as the newspapers called her, then had five successful plays in a row on the London stage. In 1938, she moved to the USA with her companion and business manager, Alec Beesley, who was a pacifist. They married the following year. She began working as a screenwriter in Hollywood in 1941. In 1948, she published her first novel, I Capture the Castle, which was an immediate success. She returned to Britain in 1951 and had another major success with The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956), later adapted into the hugely popular animated film by Disney. She continued to write books for adults and children into the 1980s, including her four volumes of autobiography, Look Back With Love: A Manchester Childhood (1974) followed by Look Back With Mixed Feelings, Look Back With Astonishment, and Look Back With Gratitude.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 42
- Aussi par
- 26
- Membres
- 13,267
- Popularité
- #1,758
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 381
- ISBN
- 268
- Langues
- 16
- Favoris
- 46