Dame Maggie Smith, who has died at the age of 89 ... her role in the 1969 film of Muriel Spark’s book, The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman ...
“She always looks so extreme,” a fellow teacher observes of Maggie Smith’s trademark rigidity in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” (1969), putting her finger on the straight ...
To have these original ideas is stunning." The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie For her title role as a teacher at a girls' school in Edinburgh, Maggie Smith won her first Oscar in 1969 for The Prime of ...
Smith had an extensive career on stage and screen that spanned seven decades. She won two Academy Awards for her roles in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and “California Suite,” four Emmy ...
The royal wrote on X: "Our National Treasure Dame Maggie Smith.. we will miss you, and luckily we can continue to immerse ourselves into all your brilliance. Thank you for giving us so much pleasure.
Allen Leech, Laura Carmichael, Maggie Smith and Douglas Reith on the set of "Downton Abbey. 2015 ... [+] (Photo by Vera Anderson/WireImage) But it wasn’t just Smith’s voice that earned this ...
The prime of Dame Maggie Smith seemed never-ending ... Scottish mentor of impressionable girls in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.” The 1969 film version of Jay Presson Allen’s play conjured ...
Always at heart, an actor with *** supreme comic instinct. As one stage director put it those witty witty elbows. According to Richard Burton, she didn't just steal *** scene. She committed grand ...
I’m so glad, in the case of Smith, to see so many people singling out her Oscar-winning work in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. In the 1969 film, she plays a teacher at a Scottish all-girls ...
Dame Maggie Smith – whose acting career spanned seven ... her deluded teacher at a Scottish girls' school in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. "Give me a gherll at an impressionable age," she ...
Smith and Stephens would also mix business with pleasure, starring in the 1969 movie “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,” which netted Smith her first Oscar, which she won for best actress.
On the big screen, Smith won her first Oscar for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” in 1970. And, among other films, she appeared in two starry Agatha Christie adaptations: 1970’s “Death On ...