Maggie Smith

...love story - on DVD for the first time - between an 18-year-old college failure (Timothy Bottoms) and a 40-year-old British woman (Maggie Smith). The strangers meet as they travel across Europe, each on an odyssey to escape an unsatisfying...

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...don't do that anyway. It's that you happily embrace a cup of tea or a nice day trip to a museum or that you prefer a film starring Maggie Smith and Judi Dench to one starring Jennifer Aniston. Women are under such pressure, not from men but...

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...who has had a glittering career on the big and small screens, joins last year's winner Julie Walters, and Dame Judi Dench, Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Diana Rigg and Katherine Hepburn as recipients of the prestigious gong. After becoming a...

In this article: Helen Mirren, Katherine Hepburn, Academy Award, Diana Rigg, Julie Walters, Judi Dench, and Queen Elizabeth II

Clash of the Titans--the 1981 Geek mythology fantasy starring Harry Hamlin, Laurence Olivier and Maggie Smith, with memorable (if anachronistic) f/x from stop-motion animation master Ray Harryhausen-boasts a pretty hefty fan following,...

In this article: Ray Harryhausen, Louis Leterrier, Clash of the Titans, Perseus, Zeus, Terminator: Salvation, Voldemort, Liam Neeson, and Ralph Fiennes

...starring Bill Nighy and Emily Blunt, aired on BBC1 in 2005, two years after The Lost Prince. Capturing Mary, starring Dame Maggie Smith and David Walliams, aired on BBC2 in 2007. The writer and director said his new project, Glorious...

In this article: Stephen Poliakoff, BBC, The Lost Prince, Capturing Mary, Gideon's Daughter, Attorney General, Radio Times, ITV, and George V

...world to ruin her career. "Capturing Mary" was written by British playwright Stephen Poliakoff, whom Smith had worked with before. "Maggie hasn't been asked enough by people to play powerful, darker roles," he says. He certainly put the...

In this article: Stephen Poliakoff, Capturing Mary, Suffolk, Oscar, and Harry Potter

...artistic merit is questionable. That's because she's so talented. I would also add to this list Maggie Smith and Reese Witherspoon. Watching each of Smith's performances is like watching a master class in acting. Witherspoon has that...

In this article: Sandra Bullock, Reese Witherspoon, Academy Award, Premonition, Sister Act, Miss Congeniality, and The Godfather 2

...give up on Twitter. Too much aggression and unkindness around. Pity. Well, it's been fun." Hamlet starring Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith Sharing regular cuppas in the film Tea With Mussolini clearly proved too enjoyable a pastime for...

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...a very slight talent and was incredibly lucky. I fear If I try to stretch it further than it will stretch it'll bounce back on me. So the answer is yes, with reservations. I am no Maggie Smith or Judi Dench. It's been a long time now for me.

In this article: James Bond, Roger Moore, The Vampire Lovers, Madeline Smith, Cattle, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Up Pompeii, Frankie Howerd, and Judi Dench

Dame Maggie Smith's return to work after being treated for cancer has been praised by her colleagues. Oscar-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes directed the actress in From Time to Time, which was filmed immediately after she was treated...

In this article: Julian Fellowes, Timothy Spall, Oscar, Cancer, Breast cancer, London Film Festival, and Lucy M Boston