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RIP Maggie Smith
By: Beverly Date: September 27, 2024, 8:36 am
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Just saw that Maggie Smith has passed at 89. She was my favorite
character is Downton Abbey and The Marigold Hotel. RIP (Feeling
similar to when Betty White died because of how popular they
both became in their later years.)
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Re: RIP Maggie Smith
By: Lyn Date: September 27, 2024, 10:30 am
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Maggie Smith was always a popular and acclaimed actress, Bev,
not just in later life. Her achievements were awesome.
Good for her living to 89, she had managed to beat a couple of
serious illnesses along the way too, living many years after
diagnosis and treatment.
The Dowager Countess died in Downton which was inevitable. That
was a marvellous character for her to play.
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Re: RIP Maggie Smith
By: Gregory Date: September 27, 2024, 11:58 am
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[quote author=Lyn link=topic=251.msg19344#msg19344
date=1727451013]
Maggie Smith was always a popular and acclaimed actress, Bev,
not just in later life. Her achievements were awesome.
[/quote]
Indeed. Her career goes back to the 1960's and one of her best
performances was as the teacher at a girls' school in the 1969
film The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie for which she won an Academy
Award as Best Actress. I love this scene from the 1967 anti-war
film Oh What A Lovely War where she plays a music hall singer
seducing young men to enlist as cannon fodder with her act. The
moment near the end where she is suddenly and shockingly
revealed as the aged whore of war caked in make-up is brilliant:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynEWZF1bkLQ&t=20s
(The King's shilling was the coin given to those who enlisted.)
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Re: RIP Maggie Smith
By: Lyn Date: September 27, 2024, 12:59 pm
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I've seen both and others including one Merchant-Ivory, the name
of which escapes me,'A Room with a View' and, more recently, a
film from a Dennis Potter script about a woman who lives in a
car/van (played by Maggie Smith). She was also in 'Harry
Potter'.
She was great on stage too so I'm told, much as I always loved
theatre I didn't go that much or see her perform.
A varied career indeed.
Her son, Toby Stephens, in his mid-fifties, is an actor and
quite gorgeous. The elder won, Chris Larkin, is also quite a
successful actor.
Bev: Have you watched, 'The Gilded Age'? I enjoyed that, love
Christine Baranski.
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Re: RIP Maggie Smith
By: guest18 Date: September 28, 2024, 3:13 am
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I remember Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey and Harry Potter.
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Re: RIP Maggie Smith
By: Lyn Date: September 28, 2024, 4:59 am
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She was in all sorts of plays, films and TV nearly all our
lives, Roses, from when she was young. Downton and Potter were
comparatively recent.
If you liked Downton (most of us did, I still watch replays),
you may well like 'The Gilded Age'.
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Re: RIP Maggie Smith
By: Leslie Date: September 28, 2024, 5:10 am
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I have a full set of Downton abbey videos, which I got from PBS
(Buffalo.N.Y.)
And I do remember a lady in there who played a good part as what
I would call the matrix of that society.
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Re: RIP Maggie Smith
By: guest18 Date: September 28, 2024, 5:49 am
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[quote author=Lyn link=topic=251.msg19379#msg19379
date=1727517542]
She was in all sorts of plays, films and TV nearly all our
lives, Roses, from when she was young. Downton and Potter were
comparatively recent.
If you liked Downton (most of us did, I still watch replays),
you may well like 'The Gilded Age'.
[/quote]
To be honest Maggie Smith wasn't our favourite actor in the
dramas in which she appeared.
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Re: RIP Maggie Smith
By: Lyn Date: September 28, 2024, 6:16 am
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'our', Roses? There's only one you!
An actor doesn't have to be a favourite for us to know and
appreciate their skill, we generally have few real favourites
and a lot depends on the character they play. Dame Maggie was
versatile, did all sorts but often comedic.
..........
Leslie, that was Dame Maggie Smith playing the Dowager Countess.
You must mean 'matriarch', a 'matrix' is the "cultural, social,
or political environment in which something develops.
"Oxbridge was the matrix of the ideology"".
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Re: RIP Maggie Smith
By: guest18 Date: September 28, 2024, 6:26 am
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Lyn, both my husband and I feel the same about that actor.
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