Peter Sellers Did Call My Wife 'Ma'am Darling' but Then He Fantasised About a Lot of Things ; Exclusive Lord Snowdon Gives His Damning Verdict On the New Movie About the Comic Genius -- One of His Closest Friends -- And Breaks His Silence On the Actor's Claims of an Affair with Princess Margaret

Mail on Sunday › September 20, 2004

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LORD SNOWDON was not happy.

He was very unhappy. In fact, he was so unhappy that in the gloom of a private Soho projection room he began to shout at the screen.

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Peter Sellers Did Call My Wife 'Ma'am Darling' but Then He Fantasised About a Lot of Things ; Exclusive Lord Snowdon Gives His Damning Verdict On the New Movie About the Comic Genius -- One of His Closest Friends -- And Breaks His Silence On the Actor's Claims of an Affair with Princess Margaret

Heckling actors is not an activity he is normally associated with but on this occasion he felt driven to make his protest heard even if they couldn't possibly hear him.

The object of his ire was the Oscar-winning Australian Geoffrey Rush, who plays Snowdon's very good friend Peter Sellers in the new film The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers. 'Who is this man?' Lord Snowdon asked to nobody in particular. Indeed I and his 25-year-old daughter Lady Frances are the only other people in the room.

'What an oaf! He isn't in the least ...

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