Once-popular opera diva Jean Horton (Maggie Smith) creates a stir with her arrival at Beecham House, a home for retired performers. No one feels the uproar more than Reginald (Tom Courtenay), Jean's ex-husband, who still stings from her long-ago infidelity. Most of the other...
LONDON (AP) — Maggie Smith, the masterful, scene-stealing actor who won an Oscar for the 1969 film “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in “ Downton Abbey” and Professor Minerva
Maggie Smith excelled in her early years in films like "The V.I.P.s" and "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie." They're worth seeking out after her death.
The Walking Dead: Dead City, is finally airing, but the first season's episode count is low for a standard television series. The spinoff picks up many years after the parent show's series finale and focuses on Negan Smith, played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Maggie Greene, played by Lau...
Liz Georges had done the voice of Maggie in Good Night, then Yeardley Smith did it in "Babysitting Maggie", "Making Faces", "Football", "House of Cards", and "The Money Jar". In Bart vs. Thanksgiving, Bart has a vision of what could happen if he returned home after destroying ...
Every choice Smith makes in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” is impeccable, both decisive and alive with Miss Brodie’s furtive indecision, confident on the surface but deeply troubled and secretly weak within. The catch in this film is that though Miss Brodie is entertainingly colorful and ...
The veteran performer famously summed up her career in a single sentence: “One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one’s still acting.” Advertisement Entertainment & Arts Maggie Smith helped redefine what it means to grow old, particularly for women ...
Margaret Natalie Smith was born in Ilford, on the eastern edge of London, on Dec. 28, 1934. She summed up her life briefly: "One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, one's still acting." Her father was assigned in 1939 to wartime duty in Oxford, where her ...
"Saddened to hear Dame Maggie Smith has passed," Lowe wrote onX, formerly Twitter. "I had the unforgettable experience of working with her; sharing a two-shot was like being paired with a lion. She could eat anyone alive, and often did. But funny, and great company. And suffered no ...
LONDON (AP) — Maggie Smith , the masterful, scene-stealing actor who won an Oscar for the 1969 film “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in “ Downton Abbey” and Professor Minerva