My Mother's Daughter: A Theatrical Autobiography

1995. x,130pp. B&W illustrations. "An account of the life and career of the Scottish actress Edith Ruddick, (Brill) whose Jewish family came to live in Dunfermline from Latvia in 1901.From her early childhood memories in Scotland, the author describes how war and marriage shaped her career, a career that has encompassed BBC Radio's Children's Hour and Drama alongside Stanley Baxter, Duncan Macrae, and Fay Compton, to working with Fulton Mackay and Burt Lancaster in Local Hero in 1986. Interlacing episodes with the famous and not so famous, there are tantalizing and charming glimpses of theater, early radio, television, and cinema." Both book and unclipped dust jacket are in excellent condition. All contents are tight and clean. There are no inscriptions.