Maggie Smith won her one and only Oscar for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Watching the film after her death was a mistake. The Oscar winning performance and the film have aged rather awkwardly.

The two-time Oscar winner, who first won an Academy Award for her unforgettable performance in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ...

11 Essential Maggie Smith Movie PerformancesThe late actor cultivated a specific kind of Englishness for the screen, but she was never afraid to upend expectation.

Dame Maggie Smith was laid to rest at a private funeral in Richmond on Monday. The late screen legend - whose iconic roles ...

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Find out more at the Young Reporter website. The significance of cinema 2 nights ago I visited the Odyssey to watch a screening of 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie', the 1969 film starring the late Dame ...

Maggie Smith, the masterful, scene-stealing actor who won an Oscar for 1969 film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in Downton ...

1. The novel is set in the 1930s and Jean Brodie has lost her fiancé in the First World War. To what extent does this influence her behaviour in the book? 2. What is Miss Brodie’s ‘prime ...

Muriel Spark's much-loved and sparkling classic about an Edinburgh school teacher and her influence on her pupils. Read by Gerda Stevenson ...