[HPforGrownups] Msggie Smith

[Beth]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, clshannon at a... wrote:
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> In a message dated 5/23/04 9:01:27 PM, valerie.flowe at v... writes:
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> > I just watched "The Secret Garden" with my children on video. 
Maggie Smith (though I'll always know her as Professor McGonegal), 
played the mean old Mrs. Medlock. This is the only other role I've 
seen her play (I'm not up on my British films); it was weird to see 
her play someone mean! Even though they changed the ending so that 
she turned nice.
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> You should see her as Aunt Betsy Trotwood in the BBC production of 
David  Copperfield with a 10 yr. old Daniel Radcliffe ;-) She's 
brusque and seemingly  mean at first, but her real nature is 
revealed later on and she certainly loves  David ;-) She's done tons 
of films though; a very long and distinguished career. The  Prime of 
Miss Jean Brodie is perhaps her best known - she was nominated for 
an  Oscar for it. She won an Oscar for California Suite in the 70's. 
Not to mention her long career in the theater. She didn't get made 
a 'Dame'  for nothing <g>
> Cindy
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Beth: I enjoyed listening to her southern (U.S.) accent in "Divine 
Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" (although the book was better) and 
I just rented "My House In Umbria", in which she plays a very non-
McGonagall character opposite Timothy Spall. 

For a list of her films (and a great picture!), try here: 
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001749/

Beth, who'd remembered "Clash of the Titans" and "Sister Act", but 
had forgotten "Hook".