Dodie Smith
Dorothy Gladys (Dodie) Smith (1896 - 1990), English novelist and playwright pictured in the toy department of Heal's furniture store on Tottenham Court Road in London where she worked while she wrote her first play, Autumn Crocus which premiered in 1931 starring Fay Compton and Francis Lederer. Smith wrote it under the pseudonym of C. L. Anthony but when journalists found out her true identity it led to a flurry of Shop Girl Writes Play headlines. Dodie Smith also wrote I Capture the Castle and is best-known for her One Hundred and One Dalmations book
Picture No
10431025
Media ID
46669583
Size
4138px x 5885px
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Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed photograph in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 18 April 1931
Date
1931
