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#damemaggiesmith

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In the Dark

I heard yesterday of the death at the age of 89 of the great Maggie Smith. Tributes have been appearing around the world at the loss of such a great talent and wonderful personality. I can’t add anything to these except to say that I adored her.

I guess many people will be most familiar her through the work she did in later life, such as the Harry Potter franchise and Downtown Abbey but as an oldie I will always think of her as the eponymous Edinburgh schoolteacher in the 1969 film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, based on the Muriel Spark novel of the same name, for which she deservedly won an Oscar as Best Actress for her portrayal of Jean Brodie, an over-zealous teacher with a soft spot for Mussolini’s Fascisti. Here’s the original trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXA0N55c3iw

I do hope this film gets shown again soon as a tribute, as it is really superb.

Maggie Smith as Lady Constance Trentham in Gosford Park (2001)

Other roles I particularly remember Maggie Smith for are in are California Suite (for which she also won an Oscar, as Best Supporting Actress). She was absolutely hilarious in Murder by Death, her perfect sense of comic timing generating numerous laugh-out-loud moments in that film.

Maggie Smith with David Niven in Murder by Death (1976)

Maggie Smith was also memorable as the splendidly rude Lady Constance in Gosford Park, a role you might think of as a sort of prelude to her part in Downton Abbey. There are countless other performances I could mention too, on TV, on Film and in the Theatre. She was tremendously versatile and talented, as well as extremely funny. She admitted having learnt a great deal about comedy from Kenneth Williams, with whom she was great friends for a long time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzYpNiDveM0

Rest in peace, Maggie Smith. You’ll be missed so much.

https://telescoper.blog/2024/09/28/r-i-p-maggie-smith-1934-2024/

#CaliforniaSuite#DameMaggieSmith#DowntonAbbey
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Matt Potter

Bringing her 🔥🔥🔥 Tilda Swinton/Madonna/Chaplin/Kabarett/Dylan-goes-electric gender-confuser energy to an otherwise pretty staid Death On The Nile (1978)

Seriously.

When Madonna came out with her cigar-chewing bisexual art-dominatrix Dita Parlo character in 1990, Maggie Smith had already cornered, tamed and trained it in this role.

Maggie Smith in a tuxedo posing to camera, serious face, side on, b/w
Maggie Smith in Death on the Nile, looking lethal in a tuxedo with a cigarette holder, androgynous
Maggie Smith in Death on the Nile, starched white shirt and black tie, androgynous.
Maggie Smith in a tuxedo posing to camera, holding a cigarette elegantly aloft, arty, serious face, face-on, b/w
#damemaggiesmith#maggiesmith#madonna
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Remembering Dame Maggie Smith: In the early 1990's, I worked at a video rental store (remember those?). Since the new movies were always checked out, I would take home random films I'd never heard of. One of those was "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie." I'd seen Smith in "A Room With a View," but Brodie was a step above. I've been a fan ever since.

Godspeed, Dame Maggie! Thank you for sharing your light.

#MaggieSmith#DameMaggieSmith#Movies
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Matt Potter

I always had a weird crush on Maggie Smith when I was a young kid. Kind of like a pop star one you’d get from seeing them on TV.

For some people, it was Bowie doing ‘Starman’ or Kate Bush or whatever. But Smith? She was meta & smart, like Rita Hayworth with added, alien, Brecht-Bowie-Chaplin energy.

I kept seeing her being all cool and being *in* a role, and offering commentary *on* the character at the same time. Winking at the audience.

#maggiesmith
#damemaggiesmith #brecht #chaplin #bowie

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Matt Potter

"I have just thrown up on some of the best people in Hollywood, now is no time to be sensitive."

Maggie Smith could make her eyes & voice play different roles simultaneously. It meant she was amazing at undercutting pathos with comedy & vice vera.

Absolute Chaplin-level physical artistry.

Here’s her Oscar-winning performance in California Suite. You’ll never order Eggs Benedict again without quoting it.

youtu.be/D7v2QJ_7nX8?si=vFOLwI

#maggiesmith
#damemaggiesmith #rip

Photo of Maggie Smith looking characteristically cool in the movie California Suite, in which she won an Oscar for her performance opposite Michael Caine
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hastingsmothman

Had the pleasure of seeing #DameMaggieSmith twice. Once in a captivating intimate conversation with 100 of us at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond… and, more recently in 2019 in a spellbinding 90-minute one woman monologue (whilst well into her 80s) performing as Joseph Goebbel’s secretary Brunhilde Pomsel in A German Life at The Bridge Theatre.

As herself, she was a little shy, even guarded, but delightfully cheeky.

In character, she was simply mesmeric.

The world will miss #MaggieSmith

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