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An Unlikely Grand Lady of Cinema

(Marie Seton, 1910–1985)

Who remembers Marie Seton? — Likely not many. For sure she is an unlikely Grand Lady of Cinema. And during her life she so genuinely became a citizen of Nehruvian India that in 1984, just as I was going through the bulk of her early writings, she was awarded with a Padma Bhushan, the…