She appeared, in Judith Crist's phrase, 'raucous and insidious as a Lilith of the music hall', a bespangled coquette singing the recruiting song 'I'll Make a Man of Any One of You'. In a way, she expressed the soul of ...
Each night, Joseph Maher was touched to find Maggie standing in the wings holding a jacket for his very quick change and ready to assist in a rapid adjustment of his cravat. The job should have been that of a ...
Maggie Smith: A Bright Particular Star
10 'In her prime; actress Maggie Smith', Sunday Morning hosted by C. Osgood, CBS News, 20 January 2002. ... 18 J. Stokes, The French Actress and her English Audience (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), p. 4: 'The English have ...
A brand-new biography of Maggie Smith, everyone's favorite dowager countess.
Drawing on personal archives, interviews and encounters with the actress, as well as conversations with immediate family and dear friends, Michael Coveney's biography is a captivating portrait of the real Maggie Smith.