Dodie Smith biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Dodie Smith

Author Name:

Dodie Smith

Born As:

Dorothy Gladys Smith

Other Names:

C. L. Anthony Charles Henry Percy

Born:

03 May 1896

Died:

24 Nov 1990




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Writer and Playwright of children's literature                          
Selected Works:

Plays:

Autumn Crocus - 1931
Service - 1932
Touch Wood - 1934
Call It A Day - 1935
Bonnet Over the Windmill - 1937
Dear Octopus - 1938
Lovers and Friends - 1943
Letter from Paris - 1952
I Capture the Castle - 1954
These People, Those Books - 1958
Amateur Means Lover - 1961

Novels:

I Capture the Castle - 1949
The Hundred and One Dalmatians - 1956
The New Moon with the Old - 1963
The Town in Bloom - 1965
It Ends with Revelations - 1967
The Starlight Barking - 1967
A Tale of Two Families - 1970
The Girl from the Candle-lit Bath - 1978
The Midnight Kittens - 1978

Autobiography:

Look Back with Love: a Manchester Childhood - 1974
Look Back with Mixed Feelings - 1978
Look Back with Astonishment - 1979
Look Back with Gratitude - 1985

Screenplays:

The Uninvited - 1944, written by Smith and Frank Partos
Darling, How Could You! - 1951, written by Smith and Lesser Samuels

Movies adapted from her works:

Looking Forward - 1933, based on Service
Autumn Circus - 1934
Call It a Day - 1937
Dear Octopus - 1943
One Hundred and One Dalmatians - 1961
101 Dalmatians - 1996
102 Dalmatians - 2000
I Capture the Castle - 2003                          
Mother  Ella Smith née Furber
Father Ernest Smith
Spous Alec Macbeth Beesley - 1939–1987                          
                          
Wrote her first play at the age of ten.