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This movie tells the true story of Alan Bennetts (Alex Jennings) strained friendship with Miss Mary Shepherd (Dame Maggie Smith), an eccentric homeless woman who Bennett befriended in the 1970s before allowing her temporarily to park her Bedford van in the driveway of his Camden house. She stayed there for fifteen years. As the story develops, Bennett learns that Miss Shepherd is really Margaret Fairchild (died 1989), a former gifted pupil of pianist Alfred Cortot. She had played Chopin in a promenade concert, tried to become a nun, was committed to an institution by her brother, escaped, had an accident when her van was hit by a motorcyclist for which she believed herself to blame, and thereafter lived in fear of arrest.
Based upon the true story of London playwright and actor s (Alex Jennings) unusual multi-year relationship with an eccentric elderly, homeless woman he knew as Miss Mary Shepherd (Dame Maggie Smith) in the 1970s before allowing her to park her van in the driveway of his home. She stayed there for fifteen years. Miss Shepherd was, in fact, Margaret Fairchild, former pupil of pianist Alfred Cortot. She played Chopin in a concert, and after she tried to become a nun, was institutionalized by her brother. Living in fear of being caught and sent back, she had an accident when her van was hit by a motorcyclist for which she believed herself to blame, and thereafter was also fearful of arrest.
Maggie Smith
Miss Shepherd
Alex Jennings
Alan Bennett
Jim Broadbent
Underwood
Clare Hammond
Young Margaret Fairchild
George Fenton
Conductor
BBC Concert Orchestra
The British Symphony Orchestra
Jamie Parker
Estate Agent
Deborah Findlay
Pauline
Roger Allam
Rufus
Richard Griffiths
Sam Perry
Pandora Colin
Fiona Perry
Nicholas Burns
Giles Perry
Dominic Cooper
Actor
Giles Cooper
Passer by
Tom Klenerman
Tom Perry
Gwen Taylor
Mam
Frances de la Tour
Mrs Vaughan Williams
Claire Foy
Lois, Social Worker
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