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 the dim parlor beyond ...

She stands at the center of “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,” which began life as a 1961 Muriel Spark novel before Jay Presson Allen adapted it for the stage, then the screen, Maggie Smith ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Maggie Smith, 87, appeared in 1969’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. The Downton Abbey star looked unrecognisable as she sported a retro ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...