retrogasm:

Maggie Smith&hellip; long before Harry Potter

This is a little intriguing because I hadn&amp;#8217;t given any thought to the idea that Professor McGonagall would be her defining role for anyone! How fun.
Maggie Smith&amp;#8217;s film career has spanned my entire lifetime. I&amp;#8217;ve seen her in a few earlier things, but remember her first from Murder By Death, the mystery novel parody in 1976. Then she was in a couple of actual Agatha Christie adaptations, and California Suite, which I felt very grownup about enjoying.&nbsp;
Other films I&amp;#8217;ve enjoyed her in are A Room With A View, The Secret Garden, Richard III, Gosford Park (one of my top favorite films ever,) Tea With Mussolini, Ladies in Lavender, &nbsp;and then of course most recently in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Quartet, and Downton Abbey, and in all these latter roles she&amp;#8217;s sort of the same person, but oh, such a person! That&amp;#8217;s working from memory; there are probably a few others, but the real point is, if you haven&amp;#8217;t seen The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, go, do. It&amp;#8217;s embraceable.&nbsp;
The Honey Pot, rather less so, but good for a sick day laugh.&nbsp;