I saw Robert Stephens play King Lear at the RSC in 1993, he was incredible and got a 10 minute standing ovation. Love Maggie Smith, such amazing life stories.
Yes, so lucky! Would I had been there. It was the year after when he did the famous radio broadcast (as Cornwall) with Sir John Gielgud celebrating his 90th birthday by playing the title role, happily on UA-cam. I also have the recording with the young Robert Stephens playing Edgar superbly. Hopefully a recording of his Lear (and Falstaff) will turn up.
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, you should watch it, I did not think I would like it but I truly enjoyed the film. I love this lady she is the Lady, in all areas. Bar none, I would be proud to know this lady, and listening to her is just a treat.
I watched the "Prime of Miss Jean Brody" over and over years ago. It seemed to always be on TV. I watched it as a child but I didn't quite get it until I saw it again as an adult! Very good movie!!
And now she is with her beloved Beverly and Robert, too! May they rest in peace~ good video, narration and perfect music in the background, thanks~ 💜💜💜
I had the pleasure of seeing Maggie Smith in Alan Bennett’s Bed Among The Lentils. It’s a one handed monologue play. She was brilliant. I was able to watch her up close as I was in the front row! I’ll never forget it.
I saw Maggie Smith and Robert Stevens at the old Vic back in the Sixties..with my late Husband. We used to sit up in the four shilling seats up in the roof..great wonderful memories...we just loved Maggie and Robert Stevens
I was a young teenager when I saw my very first Maggie Smith movie. It was The Prime Of Miss Jean Brody. I’ve watched it again and in a more mature perspective. The message resonated very deeply. I wish someone would write a book with all the marvelously wonderful quotes from the Dowager Countess of Grantham‘s ‘ Downton Abbey.’
Have you researched the Ramsey case, the murder of Jonbenet? Some interesting food for thought there, connected to the author Muriel.sparks, the prime of jean Brodie and patsy ramsey's enthrallment with both
@@HumanimalChannel Of course I remember when she was murdered and I have followed it ever since but I am not aware of this author that you mentioned. Would you be so kind as to explain to me the connection with Patsy Ramsey and the connection to Miss Jean Brodie?
When she was at Stratford (Ontario), I saw her, Jeremy Brett, and Jessica Tandy in Congreve's Way of the World. She was utterly magnificent. She radiated beauty and wit. Best theatre ever.
@@meganwatson7016 Thanks for sharing here. What an interesting time in your life! Is the Festival Theatre in Canada (or England)? Are you still working on live theatrical performances now?
I love her so, and forever will watch anything she's in. A more silent and less often seen film she did was called "Keeping Mum." She plays a wickedly funny serial killing grandmother. Maybe it was a comedy that was too dark for some, but I found that I loved her even more for having done it.
I love that one. She looks so much like my actual (late) Nana and well… Watching her drag Patrick Swayze’s dead body across the lawn in that purple coat, it felt right. Every time I watch that movie I remember she’s not really gone. She’s living on forever in a way she’d want to be remembered, we’re she to be given a choice. 🤣
@@eshaibraheem4218 Oh, you're right, thanks for pointing that out, I'll delete my comment. That'll teach me to reply before I've had my second cup of tea.
Dame Maggie Smith is one class act! I love her in everything I've ever seen her in. My favorites have always been drama's tinged with comedy. And seeing her play a good old Louisiana lady is priceless with her southern accent. And starring with Dame Judy Dench in Ladies in Lavender. It wasn't a popular movie but I loved it! You were also in 2 Hercules Poirot (Peter Ustinov) Agatha Christie movies. Evil Under the Sun and Death on the Nile (where you worked for Bette Davis' character). Dame Maggie, may you live forever in our hearts and memories!!
Maggie is the Bomb. I love her. She's a Spitfire. I haven't seen many of her movies, YET, but the ones I have seen are great. I could watch her all day long and never get bored of her. She's brilliant. She is one of my top 5 favorites. Her, Judi Dench and Helen Mirren are the most Beautiful women. Maggie makes me smile on the inside as well as on the outside every time I see her. Gotta love me some Maggie Smith.
Brilliant Actress. Love her razor sharp humor in Murder by Death. Also love her gorgeous son, Toby Stephens in 2006 PBS Masterpiece performance of Jane Eyre and James Bond's, Die another Day.
Many actors are good, a few brilliant-- Smith is one of the few geniuses of the art. An incredible and rare dramatic (and comedic) artist. A privilege to watch her work.
I once had a drama teacher who told me that the more issues an actor had, the better it was for the work. In the case of both Maggie and Robert, this could not be more true. Their achievements over so many years have enhanced all our lives immeasurably. And when they were young, they could at times look beautiful enough to break the heart.
I've loved Dame Maggie Smith for YEARS! I was THRILLED to see her in the "Harry Potter" Movies. I watch them all the time. I was in love with someone for many years. I said I was "Psychologically Married" to him. It was TERRIBLY one-sided. I VOWED: "I'll NEVER love another man! I'll never let myself be vulnerable again!" In walked this "Beautiful Man [inside and out]. I've never been so in love and "emotionally secure". He makes me giddy and I feel like a young optimistic woman again. He reached into my chest like Kate Beckinsale did Theo James in one of the "Underworld" movies and made my heart beat again. I'll never stop loving him. I'll spend the rest of my life trying to put a smile on his face. He's had an unspeakable loss. I want to ALWAYS be his "Funny Girl". Thank you. I didn't know anything about Dame Maggie Smith's personal life! Yes, retirement is death. I'd retired--I'm as rusty [physically] as "The Tin Man" from "The Wizard Of Oz"! 😵💫
And the private life of Sherlock Holmes is one of my favorite Sherlock Holmes movies and one of the saddest. If you get a chance to see it, please do. He was a wonderful actor and so is the man who plays John Watson
Love her so much. She is a legend I will never forget. Please protect this woman at all costs. After losing Betty White, I don't know how I'd recover from losing Maggie, too!
I first fell in love with maggie Smith when i saw her Guys and Dolls. That must have been 45yrs ago at least. My favourite actress. Saw her walking across the fulham rd a few yrs ago...looked fit as a flea. But now i hear she is unwell. The Queen of theatre Dame Maggie Smith x
@@sillypetslife8514 I saw Guys and Dolls at the National Theatre decades ago and Maggie Smith wasn't in it. Ever. Can you be thinking of the legendary production of Private Lives in which she starred with Robert Stephens? Guys and Dolls starred various leading ladies but they were all singers as well as actresses.
All hail Dame Maggie!! It does make me sad when a person chooses to diminish their life because someone they love lost theirs…….. being so adamant about never loving again yet admittedly lonely, bums me out. I try to live a little extra for my deceased loved ones…… but that’s just me….
I think like all great talented people, both Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens experienced great suffering, which they poured into their work. The prime of miss Jean Brodie is still one of my all time favourite films, not least because I went to an all girls secondary school....hell
Many years ago I worked at a bookstore in Towson Maryland brentano's probably the lowest money per our I've ever made and one of my all-time favorite jobs. Movie here in Baltimore Maggie Smith was in it. I was doing inventory and my boss is waiting on customers. I look up and Maggie Smith is standing there remember that she bought something by Barbara tuchman and that she was wearing a lovely blouse with autumn leaves on it and a skirt that was kind of a very light brown and went very well with the shirt. I can't even remember my phone number sometimes and I still remember that she was so nice and my boss was trying to think of her name and I could see it on her face I just stood there Gaga and I think I did say something about how much I loved her in the movies. It probably came out as total nonsense in gibberish as she was leaving my boss Cindy says Prime of Miss Jean Brodie actually she yelled it Smith turned around and smiled and waved at her. And then the woman over at the magazine area who had been staring comes over. Oh my God was that Maggie Smith. We were both so excited the rest of the day and it was just a nice experience. The assistant manager came in and she was majoring in theater and we told her all about it because we thought she would be thrilled and she didn't even know who Maggie Smith was. And this was back in the 90s when people were still smart
RIP Maggie, hopefully you two are now reunited.
No one can raise an eyebrow like Maggie Smith.- Alan Rickman.
Hands down my favorite actress! Everything she acts in is phenom! She's an icon!
Their son Toby is a wonderful actor.
@@scribe56 agree
I saw Robert Stephens play King Lear at the RSC in 1993, he was incredible and got a 10 minute standing ovation. Love Maggie Smith, such amazing life stories.
Lucky!
Yes, so lucky! Would I had been there. It was the year after when he did the famous radio broadcast (as Cornwall) with Sir John Gielgud celebrating his 90th birthday by playing the title role, happily on UA-cam. I also have the recording with the young Robert Stephens playing Edgar superbly. Hopefully a recording of his Lear (and Falstaff) will turn up.
Dame Maggie Smith is an international treasure and deserves more Oscars!
I'm so glad that Maggie was able to find true love with Beverly he truly was the love of her life 😍😘🥰
We're so happy for her too Angela! It's so great to see her find her true love and live her happily ever after!
She will be missed forever.
Definitely left a mark with her spicy humor and witty personality! What a wonderful woman! 🥀🥀🥀
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, you should watch it, I did not think I would like it but I truly enjoyed the film. I love this lady she is the Lady, in all areas. Bar none, I would be proud to know this lady, and listening to her is just a treat.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
She is fantastic! No words can paint a great picture of her talent. Maggie Smith you are tops!
I watched the "Prime of Miss Jean Brody" over and over years ago. It seemed to always be on TV. I watched it as a child but I didn't quite get it until I saw it again as an adult! Very good movie!!
RIP Dear Dame Maggie Smith, in our love and deep gratitude.
And now she is with her beloved Beverly and Robert, too! May they rest in peace~ good video, narration and perfect music in the background, thanks~ 💜💜💜
I had the pleasure of seeing Maggie Smith in Alan Bennett’s Bed Among The Lentils. It’s a one handed monologue play. She was brilliant. I was able to watch her up close as I was in the front row! I’ll never forget it.
Wow, I'm jealous.
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads monologues. Amazing.
She has aged naturally - and it hasn't hurt her career.
I feel like there's a lesson for other actors in that, somewhere...
Don't you, old sport?
;-)
that's why britisch actrices still are asked to play in the contrary of amarican, nosejob botoxetc etc
I saw Maggie Smith and Robert Stevens at the old Vic back in the Sixties..with my late Husband. We used to sit up in the four shilling seats up in the roof..great wonderful memories...we just loved Maggie and Robert Stevens
I was a young teenager when I saw my very first Maggie Smith movie. It was The Prime Of Miss Jean Brody.
I’ve watched it again and in a more mature perspective. The message resonated very deeply.
I wish someone would write a book with all the marvelously wonderful quotes from the Dowager Countess of Grantham‘s ‘ Downton Abbey.’
Have you researched the Ramsey case, the murder of Jonbenet? Some interesting food for thought there, connected to the author Muriel.sparks, the prime of jean Brodie and patsy ramsey's enthrallment with both
@@HumanimalChannel Of course I remember when she was murdered and I have followed it ever since but I am not aware of this author that you mentioned. Would you be so kind as to explain to me the connection with Patsy Ramsey and the connection to Miss Jean Brodie?
I love her. The story is so interesting. Let’s have a movie about it!
Who could possibly play her?
Maggie Smith is a living legend 😂💞
She WAS yes, xx
When she was at Stratford (Ontario), I saw her, Jeremy Brett, and Jessica Tandy in Congreve's Way of the World. She was utterly magnificent. She radiated beauty and wit. Best theatre ever.
I had the honour of being her dresser at the Festival theatre. She is a very beautiful woman and as wonderful in person as she is on film
@@meganwatson7016 Thanks for sharing here. What an interesting time in your life! Is the Festival Theatre in Canada (or England)? Are you still working on live theatrical performances now?
@@meganwatson7016lucky you 🩵🥰
Incredible artist, There will only be one Dame Maggie Smith 👑💙
I love her so, and forever will watch anything she's in. A more silent and less often seen film she did was called "Keeping Mum." She plays a wickedly funny serial killing grandmother. Maybe it was a comedy that was too dark for some, but I found that I loved her even more for having done it.
Yes, "Keeping Mum" was great fun!
I'm going to look that one up. Sounds great!!
I love that one. She looks so much like my actual (late) Nana and well… Watching her drag Patrick Swayze’s dead body across the lawn in that purple coat, it felt right. Every time I watch that movie I remember she’s not really gone. She’s living on forever in a way she’d want to be remembered, we’re she to be given a choice. 🤣
@@susieusmaximus5330 I think she meant her nana, not Maggie Smith.
@@eshaibraheem4218 Oh, you're right, thanks for pointing that out, I'll delete my comment. That'll teach me to reply before I've had my second cup of tea.
I adore her, and, one of my absolute favorite "Harry Potter" characters is Professor McGonagall. Maggie Smith is PERFECTION, always! ❤️
Watching this for a second time. Very well put together, Rumour Juice!
The older she gets, the better she is. Love her forever.
Lovely, thoughtful, respectful portrait. I really enjoyed this.
Unfortunately, I just watched another video from this channel and it was disrespectful and creepy as hell.
Dame Maggie Smith is one class act! I love her in everything I've ever seen her in. My favorites have always been drama's tinged with comedy. And seeing her play a good old Louisiana lady is priceless with her southern accent. And starring with Dame Judy Dench in Ladies in Lavender. It wasn't a popular movie but I loved it! You were also in 2 Hercules Poirot (Peter Ustinov) Agatha Christie movies. Evil Under the Sun and Death on the Nile (where you worked for Bette Davis' character).
Dame Maggie, may you live forever in our hearts and memories!!
Just a perfect Lady.She just know the pain and love that life offers and and accept it.
Maggie is the Bomb. I love her. She's a Spitfire.
I haven't seen many of her movies, YET, but the ones I have seen are great. I could watch her all day long and never get bored of her. She's brilliant. She is one of my top 5 favorites. Her, Judi Dench and Helen Mirren are the most Beautiful women.
Maggie makes me smile on the inside as well as on the outside every time I see her.
Gotta love me some Maggie Smith.
And don't forget Angela Lansbury!
My 1st introduction to Dame Maggie was her performance in the Honey Pot
Loved it !!
Brilliant Actress. Love her razor sharp humor in Murder by Death. Also love her gorgeous son, Toby Stephens in 2006 PBS Masterpiece performance of Jane Eyre and James Bond's, Die another Day.
Many actors are good, a few brilliant-- Smith is one of the few geniuses of the art. An incredible and rare dramatic (and comedic) artist. A privilege to watch her work.
I once had a drama teacher who told me that the more issues an actor had, the better it was for the work. In the case of both Maggie and Robert, this could not be more true. Their achievements over so many years have enhanced all our lives immeasurably. And when they were young, they could at times look beautiful enough to break the heart.
She never lost her beauty. It altered, but always remained, as youth fled.
Maggie Smith is absolutely magnificent in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
Dame Maggie Smith, you are just wonderful.. Loved all over the World
Although I have heard these stories for a long time, I was still stunned when watching this video.
I've loved Dame Maggie Smith for YEARS! I was THRILLED to see her in the "Harry Potter" Movies. I watch them all the time. I was in love with someone for many years. I said I was "Psychologically Married" to him. It was TERRIBLY one-sided. I VOWED: "I'll NEVER love another man! I'll never let myself be vulnerable again!" In walked this "Beautiful Man [inside and out]. I've never been so in love and "emotionally secure". He makes me giddy and I feel like a young optimistic woman again. He reached into my chest like Kate Beckinsale did Theo James in one of the "Underworld" movies and made my heart beat again. I'll never stop loving him. I'll spend the rest of my life trying to put a smile on his face. He's had an unspeakable loss. I want to ALWAYS be his "Funny Girl". Thank you. I didn't know anything about Dame Maggie Smith's personal life! Yes, retirement is death. I'd retired--I'm as rusty [physically] as "The Tin Man" from "The Wizard Of Oz"! 😵💫
And the private life of Sherlock Holmes is one of my favorite Sherlock Holmes movies and one of the saddest. If you get a chance to see it, please do. He was a wonderful actor and so is the man who plays John Watson
The heart wants what the heart wants.
Indeed I have lived a very privileged life as well.
Amazing and marvelous actor and human being. Brava!
She was a stunning actress, one whose personality simultaneously was lost in the character yet shone through. RIP Dame Maggie.
I can't think of Dame Maggie being afraid of anyone.
Love her so much. She is a legend I will never forget. Please protect this woman at all costs. After losing Betty White, I don't know how I'd recover from losing Maggie, too!
I understand but... the way of all flesh. That day awaits us all. I wouldn't want to live forever anyway.
She died yesterday at 89.
@@cybelechiodi7173 I’ve cried several times already. 😞
Very nice bio. A fan of Maggie’s since her wonderful movie: Hot Millions with the delightful Ustinov. Thanks.
What lovely stories everyday ❤
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I was fortunate to see her in a Shakespeare play in the 70’s at Stratford upon Avon.
Dame maggie smith is one of my favourite actresses god what a great role model of a woman
I luv her🙏🏽🥰🙏🏽. Ty 4 postn👋🏽
I first fell in love with maggie Smith when i saw her Guys and Dolls.
That must have been 45yrs ago at least. My favourite actress. Saw her walking across the fulham rd a few yrs ago...looked fit as a flea. But now i hear she is unwell.
The Queen of theatre Dame Maggie Smith x
Guys and Dolls!?! Did she play Adelaide or Miss Sarah?
@@sillypetslife8514 I saw Guys and Dolls at the National Theatre decades ago and Maggie Smith wasn't in it. Ever. Can you be thinking of the legendary production of Private Lives in which she starred with Robert Stephens? Guys and Dolls starred various leading ladies but they were all singers as well as actresses.
It’s so weird to consider someone’s pregnancy being scandalous. We focus on the act and not on the new life being brought into the world! Wild.
I love Maggie the harry potter franchise and in Downton abbey 🙂
Ohh, we love her in Harry Potter, but in Downton Abbey she was an absolute queen! Her lines were all so funny, and she had an excellent wit!
Awe bless her she was a fine upstanding woman and actress. Maggie Smith was a legend and one of Britain's best. R.I.P Maggie fly high....xxxx
Love Her! Always Been One Of My Favorites!💖💯
Amazing woman and phenomenal actress
All hail Dame Maggie!! It does make me sad when a person chooses to diminish their life because someone they love lost theirs…….. being so adamant about never loving again yet admittedly lonely, bums me out. I try to live a little extra for my deceased loved ones…… but that’s just me….
I will always know her as Mother Superior from Sister Act. Lol
Rest in peace, Dame Maggie❤
You'll be missed Margaret Natalie Smith...Maggie Smith. 🙏
Maggie Smith and Judy Dench. Two really great talents.
She’s just the greatest ❤️
She and her son Toby are two of my favourite actors
What about Cousin Charlotte in A Room with a View?
No exception? She’s the BEST.
I think like all great talented people, both Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens experienced great suffering, which they poured into their work.
The prime of miss Jean Brodie is still one of my all time favourite films, not least because I went to an all girls secondary school....hell
She needs to narrate an album to win a Grammy and get her EGOT!
With the BAFTAs, would that make it a BEGOT?
;-)
@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 the BAFTAS are irrelevant even more so now with the committee selection lol
@@pdgf Oh no. Please don't tell me you failed to appreciate my wordplay to make an actual point 😞
@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 i did but it was lame...just like the BAFTAS lol
One of the greatest actresses ever to be
I love her and share a birthday (several decades later) with her.
He was the art teacher from prime of miss Jean Brody
Dame where did you get the background information from 😭😩
Rest in Peace now 🪄😭
Wonderful. Actress.💕💕
Don't we love Maggie Smith!
Loooooooooovve her! Phenomenal lady. ❤
She is amazing and always will be so why retire.
Maggie Legand over and over Respect 🎨🎥
She is such a lovely person.
🍃🤗🍃
Miss Downton Abbey
Many years ago I worked at a bookstore in Towson Maryland brentano's probably the lowest money per our I've ever made and one of my all-time favorite jobs. Movie here in Baltimore Maggie Smith was in it. I was doing inventory and my boss is waiting on customers. I look up and Maggie Smith is standing there remember that she bought something by Barbara tuchman and that she was wearing a lovely blouse with autumn leaves on it and a skirt that was kind of a very light brown and went very well with the shirt. I can't even remember my phone number sometimes and I still remember that she was so nice and my boss was trying to think of her name and I could see it on her face I just stood there Gaga and I think I did say something about how much I loved her in the movies. It probably came out as total nonsense in gibberish as she was leaving my boss Cindy says Prime of Miss Jean Brodie actually she yelled it Smith turned around and smiled and waved at her. And then the woman over at the magazine area who had been staring comes over. Oh my God was that Maggie Smith. We were both so excited the rest of the day and it was just a nice experience. The assistant manager came in and she was majoring in theater and we told her all about it because we thought she would be thrilled and she didn't even know who Maggie Smith was. And this was back in the 90s when people were still smart
Great story! Thanks for taking the time to share it with us.
Wonderful lady. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👍🏴
Cheers Miss Smith.
Great lady..♥️
Sassy and so cool throughout her life
I love her! ❤️
Chris looks like her Toby looks like the dad
Simply love her!!!😍😍😍
One of the greats.
Dame Maggie Smith
Fantastic actress
Mother
Grandmother
Wife
She was stunning when she was younger.
Her son Toby STephens looks so much like her
i used to have such a crush on this woman
What can you say... it's Maggie Smith!
She is magnificent .....
It's a shame she was part of a marriage falling apart.
Yep
Nothing like mental illness to rip lives apart...
I thought she was once married to Actor David Niven, yet they never mentioned it.
I can't imagine loving two men at the same time.
She didn't love both men!! She only loved Bev!!
I love her ❤️
She needs a Kennedy Honor..
I love Maggie Smith .
Maggie Smith has played a parody of herself for at least the past 30 years.
She is a GODDESS.....
RIP ❤
One fine lady !!😊