Dame Maggie Smith = Comic GENIUS!

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 1/2/07 at 9:17pm

We all know Dame Maggie Smith is a brilliant dramatic actress, but I think her forte is comedy. I am watching "First Wife Club" right now and she is making me convulse, I am laughing so hard. From facial expressions to the delivery of lines . . . complete brilliance.

Updated On: 1/2/07 at 09:17 PM

[shiksa_goddess]

Posted: 1/2/07 at 9:19pm

I adore Maggie Smith and I adore First Wives Club. The combination is bliss.

[cudramacat]

Posted: 1/2/07 at 10:57pm

Ditto!

[BwayLover]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 12:26am

Have you seen CALIFORNIA SUITE? She is both hilarious and heartbreaking in it.

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 12:49am

^ I was about to mention that.

[alterego]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 7:54am

Try TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 8:38am

I first saw her on Broadway in Private Lives, when I was in high school. She played Amanda and her husband Robert Stephens played Elyot.

I will never forget the moment when she recognized him on the terrace of the adjoining honeymoon suite. She did a perfectly executed triple take that culminated in her involuntarily climbing a good 15 feet up the trellis.

And her line reading on "Now, that's tacky" in Neil Simon's Murder by Death is imprinted in my brain.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 8:40am

I saw her on Broadway in LETTICE AND LOVAGE. I have never had any doubt of her comedic genius.

[Garland Grrrl]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 9:49am

She's an old slag. Hate her.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 9:52am

LE GASP!

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 9:53am

Turn you down, did she, GG?

[Garland Grrrl]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 9:54am

Me? I haven't a snobish bone in my body.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 10:21am

Dramatic genius, too. Check out THE LONELY PASSION OF JUDITH HEARNE....STILL not available on DVD, but if you got the VHS and a little pluck, I'd bet you could find it. Thank me later.

[Garland Grrrl]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 10:27am

It's the greatest bore, of course, but I don't want to miss anything.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 10:29am

GG, why do you have the puppet from MAGIC as your avatar?

[Garland Grrrl]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 10:34am

I'm a big fan of Willie Tyler and Lester, but mostly Lester.

[bschneid76]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 1:03pm

Maggie Smith is my favorite actress. I love her in Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, but will say she's hilarious in Travels with my Aunt, California Suite, Sister Act, Gosford Park, The First Wives Club and Murder by Death...the list goes on and on. I want to see her on stage someday. Come back Maggie!

[morosco]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 1:23pm

Her performance in EVIL UNDER THE SUN is delicious!

[Mother's Younger Brother]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 1:40pm

"Leave it be, Dickie -- I've had enough."

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 1:45pm

When was that picture taken?

[pattifan2]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 2:16pm

Ah, morosco, I love Maggie in that film. Her remark about Diana Rigg being a chorus girl is marvellous - 'There she was, kicking her legs up higher than everybody else. And wider.' I watched her a couple of nights ago in 'A Private Function' again. Her delivery of Bennett's lines are priceless. Loved her in 'The Lady In The Van', too.

Updated On: 1/3/07 at 02:16 PM

[Mother's Younger Brother]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 2:55pm

And don't forget her star-making turn as Thetis in Clash of the Titans!

[WalkOn]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 4:41pm

Check out her performance in the BBC televsion adaptation of THE MILLIONAIRESS.