RIP Maggie Smith - share favourite/memorable roles & quotes

Sylvia

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Creating a celebration/appreciation/memorial thread from "In Memoriam":
Desperado said:
Dame Maggie Smith, gone at 89.

www.bbc.co.uk

Dame Maggie Smith tributes paid by King and Harry Potter co-stars

The King and prime minister add tributes to heartfelt memories from co-stars like Daniel Radcliffe.
www.bbc.co.uk

Such a presence. Loved her work.
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I've posted about this film before here - A Private Function (1985):
emason said:
how could A Private Function have slipped my mind. It’s one of the funniest, most under-appreciated movies ever.
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PRlady said:
If you’ve never seen The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, do. Maggie was in her own prime and magnificent.

RIP to a great actor.
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Wyliefan said:
Oh gosh, she was so good in that. And Travels with My Aunt -- the movie wasn't great, but she was. I remember thinking she was like an Edward Gorey drawing come to life.

Just for the heck of it, I've been counting up the movies I've seen her in. I'm at 26, not counting TV shows like Downton. But there are still plenty left. Better get on that!
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Simone411 said:
I'd like to share a special episode of the Carol Burnett Show.
Maggie Smith and Carol Burnett SING!

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Cachoo said:
She won an Oscar for this role---two greats chewing every last bit of scenery:

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barbk said:
NY Times obit (gifted) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/...e_code=1.N04.Jr2W.2IByXb75O5eR&smid=url-share

"“A lot of very small people kind of used to say hello to me, and that was nice,” she recalled on “The Graham Norton Show” in 2015. One boy carefully asked her, “Were you really a cat?”

Awww...
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The Times left out the best part:
One child asked me, ‘Were you really once a cat?’ and I heard myself say, ‘Pull yourself together, how could I have been!’”
www.independent.co.uk

Maggie Smith called ‘one of the greats’ as hilarious Harry Potter story goes viral

‘It’s only since Downton that people seem to recognise me,’ the star once admitted
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The first movie I have seen with her was "Hook" when I was a child and a huge fan of the Peter Pan story. This movie has remained a favorite ever since.

I also loved her in "Death on the Nile" and "Evil under the Sun".

As a huge fan of the Harry Potter franchise, and also of the character of McGonagall, I naturally loved her in this role, too.

I hadn't known I could love Dame Maggie Smith even more until I gave "Downton Abbey" a try and immediately got hooked. My favorite character was, of course, the Dowager Lady Grantham.
She made the show, hands down. https://youtu.be/GoV80LsmrJc?si=_BAWIAv9UgPmUQy5
 
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If you are a Downton fan but haven't seen the inspiration for Lady Grantham you are missing a treat. "Gosford Park" had the same writer, a sterling cast and was directed by Robert Altman. And of course Maggie shines. Here is the preview:

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I loved her early work: movies no one talks about now like Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing with Timothy Bottoms or Hot Millions with Peter Ustinov.
 
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emason said:
I loved her early work: movies no one talks about now like Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing with Timothy Bottoms or Hot Millions with Peter Ustinov.
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Hot Millions was fantastic.

It's also worth mentioning how she stole The V.I.P.s right out from under Liz Taylor and Richard Burton at their most histrionic (and the scenes Maggie didn't steal, Dame Margaret Rutherford did). :)
 
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I think the first thing I ever saw Maggie Smith in was the original Death on the Nile where she played Bette Davis's personal secretary. I was mostly there for Angela Lansbury, I had been watching Murder She Wrote with my mom since I was young, but she caught my attention and I started slowly working my way through her filmography. Any time I saw her name attached to a movie I knew it was going to at least be worth a look. I've enjoyed her in everything I've seen her in though I absolutely need to watch The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie again because I was like 16 when I watched it and I did not understand it at all. I think the most recent film of hers I saw was Travels With My Aunt which I very much enjoyed.
 
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If you haven't seen it yet, watch Tea with the Dames, a wonderful documentary/conversation between Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Eileen Atkins. Delightful.

RIP to a true legend. :(
 
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DH & I loved her in everything. Both of us have the same experience with the 1st movie we saw her in was The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. He hasn't watched Harry Potter he doesn't know how wonderfully she played that part. If I was going to watch a movie that I didn't know anything about, the knowledge that Maggie Smith was in it would guarentee that the movie was worth watching. Her passing made me sad.
 
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Jay42 said:
I think the first thing I ever saw Maggie Smith in was the original Death on the Nile where she played Bette Davis's personal secretary. I was mostly there for Angela Lansbury, I had been watching Murder She Wrote with my mom since I was young, but she caught my attention and I started slowly working my way through her filmography. Any time I saw her name attached to a movie I knew it was going to at least be worth a look. I've enjoyed her in everything I've seen her in though I absolutely need to watch The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie again because I was like 16 when I watched it and I did not understand it at all. I think the most recent film of hers I saw was Travels With My Aunt which I very much enjoyed.
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You didn't see the Sister Act movies? I admit I haven't seen the Harry Potter movies except in clips because I never cared about them or the books.
 
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VALuvsMKwan said:
You didn't see the Sister Act movies? I admit I haven't seen the Harry Potter movies except in clips because I never cared about them or the books.
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I saw the first one when I was young but I didn't really connect it to the woman I saw in Death on the Nile until I watched it again as an adult and went "wait Maggie Smith is in this?". It did make the movie much more enjoyable for me though.
 
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She was also in Murder By Death, which I first saw about 5 years ago. It made me totally reconsider my opinion of Clue, because the latter essentially lifted most of the ideas from it.
 
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I remember Maggie Smith being a guest on the Carol Burnett show, and I found two more of my favorites on YouTube.

This was another time when Maggie and Carol sang together.

Maggie On Carol 1975 Singing​


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This was another time when Maggie was a teacher.

When Dame Maggie Smith is Your Teacher... | The Carol Burnett Show Clip​


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Easily my favorite scene from "Hook"---a softer role for Dame Maggie and Christmas in London:

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