Daily Maggie Smith pictures!

[minerva56]

i love this movie... she is so funny... and a really nice picture she looks wonderful in this movie ;-)

[harmonydumbledore]

I agree her as a Southern Belle is a wee bit odd but she's so cute and fiesty in it that I love her!

Maggie seems to be able to do it all.

[dianahawthorne]

We haven't had a picture of Maggie in The Pumpkin Eater for quite some time, so enjoy the beauty of long-legged Maggie perched precariously on the countertop! (With a scarily domesticated Anne Bancroft in the foreground.)

[dianahawthorne]

Big thanks to emjay79 from LiveJournal for the unwatermarked version of this picture!

[dianahawthorne]

Today's picture was taken by my friend 12chen at LiveJournal,

[harmonydumbledore]

Love em all as always! Long legs Maggie is adorable!

[dianahawthorne]

Today's picture, provided by the ever-fabulous emjay79 (from LJ) is from the 1977 Stratford season. Maggie portrayed both Titania and Hippolyta in "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

[tabbyminerva]

Maggie looks so pretty!

[harmonydumbledore]

(squee) beautiful!

[dianahawthorne]

Time once again for the Friday Spam! This week's prompt was "behind the scenes".

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[~Aly~]

wow this is up early ^_^
& i love them

[harmonydumbledore]

(whispers sneakily) My Birthday is Saturday.

AWESOME PICSPAM!

i love behind the scenes stuff.

[dianahawthorne]

Today's picture is from Curtain Call - I adore her expression in this one!

(Harmony Dumbledore - I'm dedicating next week's Friday Spam to you - unfortunately I don't have enough time to put together a picspam today as I have to pack for college. But happy birthday!)

[harmonydumbledore]

(Squee) Yay one of my favorite Maggie Movies is a pic on my birthday!

Diana: College....awesomeness. I'm still ding college close to home for free room and board. XD

[dianahawthorne]

I know we've already had our post for today, but I *just* got this picture from a friend and had to share. This is the only picture I've ever found of Maggie Smith as Peter Pan (she played this role in the early 1970s for the Christmas season).

Again, Happy Birthday Harmony Dumbledore!

[micha]

WOW - now this is really a very special find: I have been so curious about this performance... Thank you for sharing so fast ;D

[dianahawthorne]

I know I've been sorely remiss about keeping up with theme weeks, so I apologise. However, I hope to make it up to you by this week's theme.

Some of Maggie's best performances were performed during her time at Stratford, Canada. In the 1977 and 1978 season, she had the chance to star in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, Hay Fever, As You Like It, Measure for Measure, Private Lives, and many others. This week we'll be featuring some very rare photographs from her time at Stratford, many of them courtesy of emjay79.

NOTE: I have enhanced the colour of the photographs in order to make it look nicer. Please don't post these anywhere else without asking first. Thank you!

Today's photo is from The Guardsman, one of Maggie's first roles in Stratford.

Maggie and Brian Bedford assumed the Lunt roles in The Guardsman, a basically silly play in which the Actor, cognisant of the Actress's energetic cultivation of lovers before their wedding, investigates his new wife's fidelity after six months of marriage by disguising himself as the supposed man of her dreams, a romantically impetuous Russian officer in full military regalia. The ruse is finally exposed, but not before the audience has to decide at what point the Actress, like Falstaff in the Gadshill escapade, recognises her sparring partner and justifies her protest that she knew it was him all along.
-Maggie Smith: A Bright Particular Star

Sound familiar? Lily in Love "borrowed" its plotline from the play.




Interested in what's to come this week? Click here: diana-hawthorne.livejournal.com/184032.html

[harmonydumbledore]

Maggie as Peter!? Awseome!

That green dress from the play looks good on her.

[harmonydumbledore]

The Cleopatra picture was awesome one of my favs.

Where can you get this biography?

[dianahawthorne]

Aug 16, 2009 10:25:41 GMT -5 harmonydumbledore said:

The Cleopatra picture was awesome one of my favs.

Where can you get this biography?

You can buy her biography on amazon.com. It was written by Michael Coveney.

[dianahawthorne]

Day two of our Stratford theme week!

No lady was ever so suited to play the faerie queen as Maggie Smith was. In the role of Titania, in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", she was absolutely radiant, as evidenced by her pictures.

‘She is in tune with Shakespeare, as she is with both sexes. Which is why I think of her as a creature. There are things which she hasn’t learned, but which she simply knows. She knows about the Elizabethans, and she knows how to speak Congreve, and lots of other things that you can’t possibly know from having gone to Cambridge.
-Maggie Smith: A Bright Particular Star

Again, this picture was recoloured by me - please ask if you use it!


TITANIA
[Awaking] What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?

BOTTOM
[Sings]
The finch, the sparrow and the lark,
The plain-song cuckoo gray,
Whose note full many a man doth mark,
And dares not answer nay;--
for, indeed, who would set his wit to so foolish
a bird? who would give a bird the lie, though he cry
'cuckoo' never so?

TITANIA
I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again:
Mine ear is much enamour'd of thy note;
So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;
And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me
On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee.

[harmonydumbledore]

Awesome!

[dianahawthorne]

Today's picture is also from "The Guardsman", one of Maggie's most ridiculous, yet most alluring roles.

Ronald Bryden said that, in the hands of Maggie and Brian Bedford, a pre-Sarajevo comedy laced with armagnac like some ornate belle-époque dessert became a Hungarian fore-runner of Pinter's The Lover: a wittily searching study of a woman's need for freedom in marriage: 'When she tears through the confession to her husband that she's seen a better Romeo than his "in a stock company in Schmatz"*, she snatches his self-esteem from him with the speed and grace of a pelican seizing a basking sardine. And in the last act, reading in aloof boredom while her husband drones on about money, she brings down the house with her disgusted discovery that her fingers are absently helping with his sums - she has declined into a wife.'

*Sound familiar? They used that exact scene in Lily in Love.

[harmonydumbledore]

I love that coat on her. So glamourus.

[dianahawthorne]

Maggie was one of the most famous "over-age" Rosalind's, finally playing the role she so longed to play in her forties.

ROSALIND
Now tell me how long you would have her after you
have possessed her.

ORLANDO
For ever and a day.

ROSALIND
Say 'a day,' without the 'ever.' No, no, Orlando;
men are April when they woo, December when they wed:
maids are May when they are maids, but the sky
changes when they are wives. I will be more jealous
of thee than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen,
more clamorous than a parrot against rain, more
new-fangled than an ape, more giddy in my desires
than a monkey: I will weep for nothing, like Diana
in the fountain, and I will do that when you are
disposed to be merry; I will laugh like a hyen, and
that when thou art inclined to sleep.

[harmonydumbledore]

pretty

[micha]

Another production during the summer of 1977 in Stratford was "RichardIII"; Maggie played Queen Elizabeth

[harmonydumbledore]

AAAGGGHH That...that thing on her head makes her look like Meleficient ?(spelling) From the Sleeping Beauty movie.

[dianahawthorne]

Time once again for The Friday Spam! This week's prompt was hats, and the spam is entitled "Like Jean Brodie in a witch's hat". That's right, everyone - it's Minerva-themed! With several AD/MM pics for good measure! Enjoy!

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[harmonydumbledore]

Yay! Maggi-Minerva spam!! Whoot!