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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie premiered at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or and was released in UK cinemas on 24 February 1969 and in the US on 2 March 1969. Although the film received positive reviews with Smith's performance being acclaimed, it was a box office disappointment, grossing $3 million on a $2.76 ...
The song was the theme to the 1969 film adaptation of Dame Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which starred noted British actress Maggie Smith.Smith won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of the titular (and lead) character in the film, Jean Brodie.
It is as captivating today as it was upon its release and its two central performances by Maggie Smith and Pamela Franklin are both stirring and mesmerizing. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is the crème de la crème." [37] The role also won Smith her first BAFTA Film Award for Best Actress. [3] Smith in 1973
“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-backed, nose ...
Dame Maggie Smith's career on stage, film and TV spanned seven decades. The actress, who died on Sept. 27, ... 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,' 1969. Alamy. Maggie Smith.
Maggie Smith, who died on Sept. 27 at age 89, brought a bright, distinctive spark to every role she took on ... In The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, her performance as a Scottish schoolteacher who ...
LONDON (AP) — Maggie Smith, who died Friday aged 89, appeared in dozens of films over more than 60 years. Roles ranged from her iconic turn in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" to her Professor Minerva McGonagall in seven Harry Potter films, and films from Shakespeare's “Othello” to the animated “Gnomeo & Juliet.”
Smith was also known for her film roles and started acting in films in the late 1950s before gaining her breakthrough film role in Othello (1965) in which she acted alongside Laurence Olivier and Michael Gambon. She won her first Academy Award for her performance in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969).