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“to a nunnery… go.”
whatever you say hamlet literally sprinting to the abbey rn
Pride and Prejudice (1940) | dir. Robert Z Leonard
"Irene chats with Laurence Olivier and his wife-to-be, Vivien Leigh, who visited her on the set during filming of 'My Favorite Wife.'"
Silver Screen Magazine, May 1940.
Spartacus | Stanley Kubrick | 1960
Laurence Olivier, John Gavin, et al.
I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.
Maggie Smith
Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.
Maggie Smith
If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
Maggie Smith
If you like Shakespeare, you've come to the right place.
Othello is a 1965 film based on the National Theatre Company's staging of Shakespeare's Othello (1964-1966) staged by John Dexter. Directed by Stuart Burge, the film starred Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Joyce Redman, and Frank Finlay, who all received Oscar nominations, and provided film debuts for both Derek Jacobi and Michael Gambon.
Maggie Smith in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
Dame Maggie Smith
1934-2024
Rebecca (1940) dir. Alfred Hitchcock