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London: Hutchinson, 2006. First edition, 5th printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Anna Raymond Massey (1937 - 2011) was an English actress. She won a BAFTA Best Actress Award for the role of Edith Hope in the 1986 TV adaptation of Anita Brookner's novel Hotel du Lac. a role that one of her co-stars, Julia McKenzie, has said "could have been written for her". She was also well known for her roles in Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960) and Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972). On the stage, in 1982, Massey won the Laurence Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in a Supporting Role for The Importance of Being Earnest. From the publisher: The candid, wryly funny and emotional autobiography of one of the UK's most respected actresses. Anna remembers how family life was never easy: Raymond Massey fled the roost for the United States when Anna was little, and re-married. Her mother, Adrianne, was a marvelous hostess who filled the house with an exotic mixture of guests, but it was Nanny who supplied the crucial…
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