I love them both and their relationship. Even watching Downton Abbey, you can see the Kenneth Williams influence in the way she elongates words and some of the cheeky mannerisms. What a fantastic pair. It’s such a shame Kenneth was gone too early!
I had no idea she was connected with him. Here, she's still quite the ingenue, still hip and sixties. It's quite clear that she learned how to Grand Dame from Kenneth, and he from Edith Evans.
This just so good & beautiful...Maggie & Ken...asexual lovers/partners...complete truth seekers both of them....how wonderful to see such instinctively pure spirits fuse.........
I will look for more of him now. I love seeing them talking like best buddies, and smoking with inflection. You can see how sharp Smith was to draw off his talent.
I love those 2 ❤. I love him in all the Carry on's 😂 especially carry on abroad. And I quote Kenneth Williams: yes, hello, my name is Stuward Farquhar where Peter Butterworth answers : stupid what...??? 😂😂😂😂😂
Williams could never have married her...not least because he was gay and preferred his own company. He hated people using the bathroom in his spartan flat for heaven's sake! But he loved Smith in the 'true' sense of the word. I've read his books/letters/and more and they are a revelation about life growing up after the war. The only person he could live with was his dear old mum.They shared the same apartment block...he in his apartment and she in hers.He would pop in to watch T.V with her...he didn't own a television...and they went on holiday together. Read his diaries...they are wonderful.
It’s very interesting that as a young woman Maggie Smith had close friendships with two gay men: Kenneth Williams and Paul Lynde (whom she met in New Faces on Broadway.) Says something about the sensibilities of all three.
I think they should have gotten married they would have been perfect and maybe Kenneth would still be alive today because SHE would of kept him going to me they both look like they should be together.
@@quuhod It's not. He seemed to have very few personal relationships with men yet he was very close to women. No one ever got that close to him to be considered a partner. On the Carry On films he was very close to Barbara Windsor and Hattie Jacques but apparently not with his male co stars.
If you read his diaries (which I have cover to cover) as well as a biography or two it becomes clear how he craved but at the same time was horrified by intimacy. It’s not strictly true however to claim all his spiritually significant relationships were with women. He was absolutely devoted and steadfast in his close friendships with both Gordon Jackson and Stanley Baxter and he was crazy about Joe Orton too who was so tragically murdered the year this clip was filmed
And by the magic of the internet, here is the full interview of Maggie and Ken filmed on the stage of the National Theatre at the Old Vic by Clive Goodwin, 1967: watch?v=BgU9dqV8GlU
Dadacomero Why should that have stopped them? I used to know a couple (man & woman) who were both gay: they got married because they were really good friends. :)
