Her Aunt Augusta in Travels With My Aunt is probably my most favorite Maggie Smith role on screen. On TV, no one can hold a candle to her Violet Crawley. No on else could have played that role like she did: wit, charm, utterly tactless. She's the best!
With its sad mish-mash of anachronistic images and factual inaccuracies, this gushingly hagiographic film fails to do justice to such a wonderful actor.
I just want a good actress to be given her just plaudits. She is not my favourite actress but I hate these items. I was brought up by an agnostic German, and a communist and an Irish Catholic Mother. Both would say de mortuis nihil nisi bonum. Rest in Peace Maggie Smith, you served the theatre well. Charity it seems is not an exclusive Christian virtue..
@thomasheyes5747 ... Unneeded clickbait really but an otherwise interesting video. I'd forgotten some, and not heard of other stuff Maggie had done especially for television.
I've never heard the word "solidifying" used so many times. Just for information "Evil Under the sun" takes place on an island and is not a locked room mystery and that's just for a start. Oscar Wilde wrote comedies and there's no need to say comedies are witty, and on and on. I'm going to lie down with a cold towel on my head.
She was opposite Rod Taylor in the VIP's, not Richard Burton, as a secretary who was heartbreakingly in love with her boss; another story from that film was with the legendary Margaret Rutherford; both these stories were far superior to the Taylor/Burton story part.
I love the subject, Maggie Smith, but the repetitive phrases "cemented her reputation" hang in there as fillers for the lack of better writing. Also, the jumping away from timelines back and forth are both trademark shortcomings from the author/writer in this channel
Happened to have watched her on some British chat show. She comes across as a unhappy person who hates what she does for a living when people want to say hello. Hard to be so public and hate the recognition!
@@RoderickFernandez-ps5ci Watch her on the Graham Norton show. Never watches anything she does. Thinks her time on Harry Potter is from hell. I could imagine that dealing with the public on the street would be a "Soul Sucking" problem. But what do they expect? You want anonymity? Become a plumber!
