She is also an eccentric spinster whose frustrations, romanticism, spunk, pride and biological gusto ... in the title role of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, but is nonetheless unable to conceal ...

While many remember her for “Downton” and “Harry Potter,” don’t forget her mesmerizing, Oscar-winning work in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.” Senior Editor, Obsessed To be a master ...

Novelist Dame Muriel Spark, who wrote the classic The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, has died in Tuscany where she had made her home. The Scottish-born writer, who was 88, wrote more than 20 books, ...

Maggie Smith won her one and only Oscar for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Watching the film after her death was a mistake. The Oscar winning performance and the film have aged rather awkwardly.

“She always looks so extreme,” a fellow teacher observes of Maggie Smith’s trademark rigidity in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” (1969), putting her finger on the straight ...

The two-time Oscar winner, who first won an Academy Award for her unforgettable performance in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), found a new wave of fame in recent years as the sharp-tongued ...

But my own memories of Smith go back to the 1960s and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which shot in Edinburgh and which won Smith the first of her two Oscars. She played another teacher ...

LONDON (AP) — Maggie Smith, the masterful, scene-stealing actor who won an Oscar for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" in 1969 and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of ...

Smith, who won an Oscar for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” in 1969 and won new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in “Downton Abbey,” has died at 89.

Maggie Smith, a scene-stealing British actress who won Oscars for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and “California Suite,” later enchanting audiences as a professorial witch in the Harry ...

Was it political, personal? Was it Calvinism?” “Oh, no,” said Sandy. “But there was a Miss Jean Brodie in her prime.” She clutched the bars of the grille as if she wanted to escape from ...