A splash of exoticism at the conservative Marcia Blaine's School for Young Girls in 1930s Edinburgh, Miss Jean Brodie (Smith) is very good at making her students -- the "Brodie girls" -- hers for ...

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 ...

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 ...

By contrast, you can visit and revisit great fiction – Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited comes at once to mind; Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is another – time and again ...

Miss Brodie ushered the girls from the music room and ... “But there was a Miss Jean Brodie in her prime.” She clutched the bars of the grille as if she wanted to escape from the dim parlor ...

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 ...

In the case of Smith, she won the Oscar for Best Actress and then the Best Supporting Actress—the first for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and the second for California Suite. The achievement of ...

Smith’s performance in Othello earned her an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress. Jean Brodie in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) Smith’s portrayal of Miss Jean Brodie in The ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...