Editing Glenda Jackson (section)

===1969–1980: Breakthrough and acclaim ===
[[File:Glenda-Jackson-in-the-movie-Tempter-352118614265.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.9|160px|Jackson in a trailer for ''[[The Devil Is a Woman (1974 film)|The Devil Is a Woman]]'' (1973)]]

Jackson's starring role in [[Ken Russell]]'s film adaptation of [[D. H. Lawrence]]'s ''[[Women in Love (film)|Women in Love]]'' (1969) led to her first [[Academy Award for Best Actress]]. [[Brian McFarlane (writer)|Brian McFarlane]], the main author of ''The Encyclopedia of British Film'', wrote: "Her blazing intelligence, sexual challenge and abrasiveness were at the service of a superbly written role in a film with a passion rare in the annals of British cinema."<ref name="McFarlane">{{cite book|editor-first=Brian|editor-last=McFarlane|title=The Encyclopedia of British Film|publisher=Methuen/BFI|location=London, England|date=2003|isbn=978-0413773081|page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofbr0000unse/page/n380 339]|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofbr0000unse|url-access=registration}}</ref> In the process of gaining funding for ''[[The Music Lovers]]'' (1970) from [[United Artists]], Russell explained it as "the story of a homosexual who marries a [[nymphomania]]c",<ref>{{cite magazine|first=David|last=Del Valle|url=http://www.filmsinreview.com/2012/06/20/camp-david-june-2012-tchaikovsky-is-just-not-that-into-you|title=Camp David June 2012: Tchiakovsky is Just Not That Into You|magazine=[[Films in Review]]|date=20 June 2012}}</ref> the couple being the composer [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]] ([[Richard Chamberlain]]) and [[Antonina Miliukova]], played by Jackson. The film received mixed reviews in the US; the anonymous reviewer in ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' wrote of the two principals, "Their performances are more dramatically bombastic than sympathetic, or sometimes even believable."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://variety.com/1970/film/reviews/the-music-lovers-1200422371/|title=Review: ''The Music Lovers''|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|location=Los Angeles, California|date=31 December 1970|access-date=10 November 2018}}</ref> ''The Music Lovers'' was a box-office success in Europe, reaching No. 1 in the UK's weekly rankings in March 1971. It was the first of four films starring Jackson which topped the box-office charts in the UK.<ref>{{cite web |last=Gallagher |first=Paul |date=23 April 2021 |title=Press Book for The Music Lovers: 'The Story of a Homosexual who Fell in Love with a Nymphomaniac' – 1971 |url=https://flashbak.com/press-book-for-the-music-lovers-the-story-of-a-homosexual-who-fell-in-love-with-a-nymphomaniac-1971-440600/ |access-date=25 July 2022 |website=Flashbak |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Swern-1995">{{cite book |last=Swern |first=Phil |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60281094 |title=The Guinness book of box office hits |date=1995 |publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]] |isbn=0-85112-670-7 |location=Enfield |oclc=60281094 |author-link=Phil Swern}}</ref> Jackson was initially interested in the role of Sister Jeanne in ''[[The Devils (film)|The Devils]]'' (1971), Russell's next film, but turned it down after script rewrites and deciding that she did not wish to play a third neurotic character in a row.<ref>{{cite book|last=Crouse|first=Richard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RA71s6Ih9D8C&pg=PT47|title=Raising Hell: Ken Russell and the Unmaking of ''The Devils''|publisher=ECW Press|date=2012|pages=47–48|isbn=9781770902817}}</ref>

[[File:Elizabeth1England.jpg|thumb|right|160px|Jackson portrayed Queen [[Elizabeth I]] in the [[BBC]] serial ''[[Elizabeth R]]'' (1971) earning two [[Primetime Emmy Awards]] for the role]] 
Jackson had her head shaved to play [[Queen Elizabeth I]] in the [[BBC]]'s serial ''[[Elizabeth R]]'' (1971). After the series aired on [[PBS]] in the US, she received two [[Primetime Emmy Award]]s for her performance. She also played Queen Elizabeth in the film ''[[Mary, Queen of Scots (1971 film)|Mary, Queen of Scots]];'' and gained an [[Academy Award]] nomination as well as a [[BAFTA Award]] for her role in [[John Schlesinger]]'s ''[[Sunday Bloody Sunday (film)|Sunday Bloody Sunday]]'' (both 1971).<ref>{{Cite web|title=1972 Film Actress &#124; BAFTA Awards|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1972/film/actress|access-date=2 January 2024|website=awards.bafta.org}}</ref> In July, ''Sunday Bloody Sunday'' topped the UK box-office charts for two weeks.<ref name="Swern-1995" /> That year, British exhibitors voted her the sixth most popular star at the British box office.<ref>Peter Waymark. "Richard Burton top draw in British cinemas." ''The Times'', London, 30 December 1971: 2. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 11 July 2012.</ref> Jackson's popularity was such that 1971 saw her receive Best Film Actress awards from the [[Variety Club of Great Britain]] (who also rewarded her similarly in 1975 and 1978), the [[1971 New York Film Critics Circle Awards|New York Film Critics]] and the US [[National Society of Film Critics]].<ref name="WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO-2007" /> ''Mary, Queen of Scots'' was premièred in December 1971 in Los Angeles and was the 1972 [[Royal Film Performance]] in Britain, attended by the [[Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother|Queen Mother]], [[Princess Margaret]] and [[Lord Snowdon]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mary, Queen of Scots Blu-ray review {{!}} Cine Outsider |url=http://cineoutsider.com/reviews/bluray/m/mary_queen_of_scots_br.html |access-date=25 July 2022 |website=cineoutsider}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=Queen Mother {{!}} Princess Margaret {{!}} British Royalty {{!}} Royal Film premier{{!}} 1972 | date=3 February 2018 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x9abdC0Zu0 |language=en |access-date=25 July 2022}} via YouTube. [[Thames Television|ThamesTv]].</ref> The film reached No. 1 in the UK box-office charts in April that year, a position it held for five consecutive weeks.<ref name="Swern-1995" /> 

Jackson made the first of several appearances with [[Morecambe and Wise]] in their 1971 Christmas special. Appearing in a comedy sketch as [[Cleopatra]] for the BBC ''[[The Morecambe & Wise Show (1968–1977)|Morecambe and Wise Show]]'', she delivered the line, "All men are fools and what makes them so is having beauty like what I have got."<ref>{{Cite news |date=1 October 2015 |title=Eric Morecambe jokes and one-liners |language=en-GB |work=The Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comedy/comedians/eric-morecambe-jokes/ |access-date=7 July 2022 |issn=0307-1235}}</ref> Her later appearances included a song-and-dance routine (where she was pushed offstage by Eric), a period drama about [[Queen Victoria]], and another musical routine (in their [[Thames Television]] series) where she was elevated ten feet in the air by a misbehaving swivel chair.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Two – The Morecambe and Wise Show, Christmas Show 1971 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gw1d0 |access-date=7 July 2022 |publisher=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Glenda Jackson |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f689afe |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324211132/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f689afe |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 March 2016 |access-date=7 July 2022 |publisher=British Film Institute |language=en}}</ref> Jackson and Wise also appeared in a 1981 information film for the [[Blood Transfusion Service]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Blood Donor : Glenda and Ernie (1981) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/51804201a6335 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200916060555/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/51804201a6335 |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 September 2020 |access-date=7 July 2022 |publisher=British Film Institute |language=en}}</ref>

Filmmaker [[Melvin Frank]] saw Jackson's comedy skills in the ''Morecambe and Wise Show'' and offered her the lead female role in his romantic comedy ''[[A Touch of Class (film)|A Touch of Class]]'' (1973), co-starring [[George Segal]], which was a UK box-office No. 1 in June 1973.<ref name="Swern-1995" /> In February 1974, Jackson's role in the film won her the Academy Award for Best Actress. She continued to work in the theatre, returning to the RSC for the lead in [[Henrik Ibsen]]'s ''[[Hedda Gabler]]''. A later film version directed by [[Trevor Nunn]] was released as ''[[Hedda (1975 film)|Hedda]]'' (1975), for which Jackson was nominated for an Oscar. In ''[[The New York Times]]'', [[Vincent Canby]] wrote: "This version of ''Hedda Gabler'' is all Miss Jackson's Hedda and, I must say, great fun to watch ... Miss Jackson's technical virtuosity is particularly suited to a character like Hedda. Her command of her voice and her body, as well as the Jackson mannerisms, have the effect of separating the actress from the character in a very curious way."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=950DE1DB123DE532A25755C2A9679C946790D6CF|title=Hedda on Film Is All Glenda Jackson|last=Canby|first=Vincent|access-date=24 June 2018|language=en}}</ref> 

In 1978, she starred in the romantic comedy ''[[House Calls (1978 film)|House Calls]],'' co-starring [[Walter Matthau]], with the film spending two weeks at No. 1 in the US box-office rankings.<ref>{{Cite web |title=House Calls (1978) – Financial Information |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/House-Calls |access-date=21 July 2022 |website=The Numbers}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |date=3 May 1978 |title=50 Top-Grossing Films |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |page=15}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |date=10 May 1978 |title=50 Top-Grossing Films |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |page=15}}</ref> ''House Calls'' was the biggest box-office hit of her career in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Glenda Jackson – Box Office |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/person/70680401-Glenda-Jackson |access-date=25 July 2022 |website=The Numbers}}</ref> That year, she was awarded a [[CBE]].<ref name="WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO-2007" /> In 1979, she reunited with her ''A Touch of Class'' colleagues Segal and Frank for the romantic comedy ''[[Lost and Found (1979 film)|Lost and Found]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=LOST AND FOUND |url=https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/lostandfound |access-date=21 July 2022 |website=[[Sony Pictures]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Lost and Found |url=https://www.parkcircus.com/film/114561-Lost-and-Found |access-date=21 July 2022 |website=Park Circus |language=en}}</ref> Jackson and Matthau teamed again in the comedy ''[[Hopscotch (film)|Hopscotch]]'' (1980), which debuted at No. 1 in its opening weekend at the US box office, also spending its second week in the top spot.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=8 October 1980 |title=50 Top-Grossing Films |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_variety_1980-10-08_300_10/page/n8 |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |page=9}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |date=1 October 1980 |title='Hopscotch,' 'People' Lead Week's Pack of B.O. Contenders |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_variety_1980-10-01_300_9/page/3 |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |page=3}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |date=15 October 1980 |title=50 Top-Grossing Films |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_variety_1980-10-15_300_11/page/9 |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |page=9}}</ref>