Where You’ve Seen Her Before: Dame Maggie Smith (the Early Years)
Posted on January 22, 2016 at 7:00 am
I love her as the devoted secretary “Miss Mead,” in the all-star soapy drama about wealthy and powerful people stuck at an airport, “The VIPs.” She was in love with her boss, played by Rod Taylor.
And she appeared with Taylor again in “Young Cassidy.”
She is the flamboyant title character in the madcap road trip caper “Travels with My Aunt.”
She won an Oscar as the headstrong, domineering, and misguided teacher in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmNQVo1qpD8And another for “California Suite,” where she played an Oscar-nominated British actress married to — and in love with — her gay husband, played by Michael Caine.
She played another aunt in “A Room with a View.”
I was lucky enough to see her twice on stage, in “Private Lives” and “Lettice and Lovage.” She was incandescent.