Richard Burton remarked that Smith didn’t just take over a scene in The VIPs with him: “She commits grand larceny.” However, the director Peter Hall found that Smith wasn’ ...
Maggie Smith, who won an Oscar for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" in 1969 and won new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in "Downton Abbey," has died, her publicist said ...
until it sounds like a freshly minted epigram by Coward or Wilde.” Smith famously drew laughs from a prosaic line — “This haddock is disgusting” — in a 1964 revival of Noel Coward’s “Hay Fever.” “But ...
Maggie Smith, the masterful actor who won an Oscar for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” in 1969 and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in “Downton Abbey” and ...