Editing Sarah Miles (section)

===Robert Bolt===
After acting in several plays from 1966 to 1969, Miles was cast as Rosy in the leading title role of [[David Lean]]'s ''[[Ryan's Daughter]]'' (1970). It was critically savaged, which discouraged Lean from making a film for some years, despite Miles's performance gaining her an [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Oscar nomination]] and an Oscar win for John Mills, and the film making a substantial profit. In Terence Pettigrew's biography of [[Trevor Howard]], Miles describes the filming of ''Ryan's Daughter'' in Ireland in 1969. She recalls, "My main memory is of sitting on a hilltop in a caravan at six in the morning in the rain. There was no other actor or member of the crew around me. I would sit there getting mad, waiting for either the rain to stop or someone to arrive. Film-acting is so horrifically belittling."<ref>Terence Pettigrew ''Trevor Howard: A Personal Biography'', London: Peter Owen, 2001, p.149</ref>

Miles married the film's screenwriter, [[Robert Bolt]]. He wrote and directed ''[[Lady Caroline Lamb (film)|Lady Caroline Lamb]]'' (1972) starring Miles in the title role.<ref>Movies: Bolt of lighting hits the screen...
Martin, James. Chicago Tribune 4 Mar 1973: e10.</ref> She then appeared in ''[[The Hireling]]'' (1973).

On 11 February 1973, while filming ''[[The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing]]'', aspiring screenwriter [[David Whiting]], who was briefly one of her lovers,<ref>Christopher Hastings [https://web.archive.org/web/20120205072949/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/drama/3560030/Sarah-Miles-Sex-spooks-and-Steven-Spielberg.html "Sarah Miles: Sex, Spooks and Steven Spielberg"], ''The Sunday Telegraph'', 7 September 2008</ref> was found dead in her motel room. She was acquitted of culpability in his death.<ref name="planet"/><ref name="rosenbaum">Ron Rosenbaum, "The Corpse as Big as the Ritz", ''The Secret Parts of Fortune'' (reprinted from ''Esquire'')</ref> Miles later commented: "It went on for six months. Murder? Suicide? Murder! Suicide! Murder! Suicide! And, gradually, the truth came out, which I'm not going to speak about, but it certainly wasn't me. I had actually saved the man from three suicide attempts, so why would I want to murder him? I really can't imagine."<ref name=planet/> This led to the end of her first marriage to Bolt.