Zoe Caldwell acts up a typhoon in the title role of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, but is nonetheless unable to conceal that she is one character in pressing search of a play. A clumsy Broadway ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Rites of Passage The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie has been adapted for the stage at London's Donmar Warehouse to mark the centenary of Muriel Sparks' birth There's a new horror film which some ...

Their on-screen partnership was best known through the film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, in which they starred opposite each other. After Dame Maggie filed papers, Stephens said: 'She really ...

“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 ...

I’m so glad, in the case of Smith, to see so many people singling out her Oscar-winning work in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. In the 1969 film, she plays a teacher at a Scottish all-girls’ school in ...

“But there was a Miss Jean Brodie in her prime ... Joyce Emily’s parents, wealthy as they were, had begged for a trial period to elapse at the new school before investing in yet another ...