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Article: Encore, Margot; As a student at the Royal Ballet School, author Meredith Daneman (right) was privileged to get a captivating glimpse into the world of prima ballerina Margot Fonteyn, and later became her biographer. Here she reflects on the life of the dancing legend - played by Anne-Marie Duff in an exciting new BBC film.(Features)
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 20, 2009
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Byline: Meredith Daneman
'Be careful,' I warned the actress Anne-Marie Duff. 'You won't be able to shake Margot off like just another part. She'll get under your skin and change you.' For all that Margot Fonteyn was such a gentle, passive person, there was something tenacious in her that even now, 18 years after her death, lays all bare before it. If you dare to couple your name with hers, you are bound to feel the obliterating force of her shadow. Towards the end of the writing of her biography in 2001, which was towards the end of my husband's life, I could almost hear her saying to me as I pushed him in his wheelchair: 'You want to know what it was like to be ...
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