When actor Maggie Smith died in late September, the media highlighted memorable clips from her long screen career. The witty dowager, the professor of sorcery, glimpses of Shakespearean scenes. No ...
Jean Brodie, Minerva McGonagall, Violet Crawley: Maggie Smith embodied these memorable roles on stage and screen. NPR's Scott Simon has a... Opinion: Remembering the marvel, Maggie Smith By the time ...
I'm Dave Davies. Maggie Smith, the renowned British actress best known to American audiences for her roles in the "Harry Potter" films and the masterpiece series "Downton Abbey," died last Friday in ...
Dame is a term that shifts dramatically in the cross-Atlantic translation between Britain and the United States. Here it’s considered archaic, a throwback to film noir that taught us to associate it ...
Dame Maggie Smith dominated the halls of Hogwarts as Professor McGonagall and provided a sublime acidic wit as the Dowager Countess in Downtown Abbey in a career spanning seven decades. Born in Ilford ...
To me, education is simply a leading out of what is already there. DAVIES: And that is our guest, Maggie Smith, in her performance that won her the best actress Oscar in "The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie ...
DAVIES: Maggie Smith recorded in 2016. We'll hear more after a break. This is FRESH AIR. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR. Let's get back to our interview with Maggie Smith, the British ...
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies. Maggie Smith, the renowned British actress best known to American audiences for her roles in the "Harry Potter" films and the masterpiece series "Downton Abbey," ...