Peter Sellers before he was Peter Sellers

Before gaining notice playing an Indian doctor alongside Sophia Loren in The Millionairess , Peter Sellers filled many roles in a cute film titled The Mouse That Roared . Perhaps the funniest of the lot is his turn in drag as The Grand Duchess of Fenick. Good stuff on TCM this evening.

The Millionairess

Today's picture is from the 1972 production of George Bernard Shaw's play The Millionairess . Starring Maggie as Epifania Ognisanti di Parerga Fitzfassenden, Tom Baker as the Egyptian Doctor, and James Villiers as Alastair Fitzfassenden. (James played Victor, Maggie's husband, in Private Lives ).

The Friday Spam: Hats

... bus ticket collector lady! With her son, baby!Chris Larkin in his first on-screen role! Curtain Call Now this is a hat! Suddenly, Last Summer Publicity shot of awesome. PROFILE. The Millionairess Sooooo pretty! The Missionary I like the expression on her face. It’s her very mild “wtf is going on here” expression. And now my favourite part of this picspam – Travels ...

The Friday Spam: Period Costumes

... “The Beaux’ Stratagem” at the National Theatre Seriously one of my favourite pictures of all time. “The Merchant of Venice”, BBC production “The Millionairess”, BBC production “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, Stratford As Hippolyta As Titania “The Way of the World”, Stratford “Much Ado About Nothing”, Stratford...

Theme Week: Hats!

Today's picture is from The Millionairess .

The Friday Spam: Food and Drink

...:D In Quartet (1981) and with Christopher Plummer (in disguise!) in Lily in Love , 1984 Maggie and Judi in A Room With A View (and this is my absolute FAVOURITE scene), 1986 and, finally, Maggie playing the lonely alcoholic Judith Hearne in The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne , 1988 The picture used for the banner is from The Millionairess , 1972 (with Charles Gray)

10 Reasons to Love Dame Maggie Smith

...Sullen in George Farquhar’s The Beaux’ Stratagem , Patty Terwilliger in Hot Millions , Avonia Bunn in Trelawney of the Wells , Epifania Ognisanti di Parerga Fitzfassenden in George Bernard Shaw’s The Millionairess Rosalind in William Shakespeare’s As You Like It , Amanda Prynne in Noel Coward’s Private Lives , Virginia Woolf in Edna O’Brian’s Virginia , Doreen in Peter Shaffer’s The...

Festies After Dark

... pretty stone. And since no one WANTS a Shikon no Tama that DOESN'T have a string hole in it, my previous attempts to sell it have been as effective as my many attempts to become a millionairess by buying Powerball tickets.) Some Bondage-Kimono-Dress-Thingy-I-Made-To-Wear-At-Kakkoicon-Last-Year It looks a lot better than it sounds, and is really comfy despite all of the straps and buckles. I ...

...the oldest house in the neighborhood, I can only assume that it was her house. I doubt she lived there, though. My guess is it was one of her farms (now a city block, of course) and my old house was the land manager's residence, since I got my info from an 1896 atlas and by that time she was a millionairess living in a 20 room Italianate Mansion on Moss ave. I'm going to research this more.

xalbockolol

... two other boys and one dirtylittle limp girl in a gauzy dress. A PAVIOR AND FLAGGER: That's the famous Bloom now, the world's greatestreformer. Hats off!_(All uncover their heads. Women whisper eagerly.)_A MILLIONAIRESS: _(Richly)_ Isn't he simply wonderful?A NOBLEWOMAN: _(Nobly)_ All that man has seen!A FEMINIST: _(Masculinely)_ And done!A BELLHANGER: A classic face! He has the forehead of a ...