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 ...

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 ...

Early in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, the 1969 film starring Maggie Smith in an Oscar-winning performance, Smith stands in front of a classroom of young teenage girls and informs them that they ...