Maggie Smith a Portrait | Part 2

" Dame Margaret Natalie Smith Cross, DBE (born 28 December 1934), better known as Maggie Smith, is an English film, stage, and television actress who made her stage debut in 1952 and is still performing after 58 years. She has won numerous awards for acting, including five BAFTA Awards, two Academy Awards, two Golden Globes, an Emmy Award and a Tony Award.
This is a 30 minute DVD extra about the career of an extraordinary actress".
Part Two.

[@TheRickie41]

The delicacy of this portait lies in the fact that it respects the mystery of true, genuine talent.

[@philiphema2678]

Maggie Smith never disappoints. She is the consummate actor.

[@maryeliason1504]

I love & admire her. Would watch anything that she does. She is so beautiful & I love the way she speaks & expresses herself.Thank you so much for this program. 💕❤️

[@reha1066]

She is my all time favorite actress and one of the most interesting people I have listened to. She is absolutely honest and that makes her special.

[@persiaiskandar4268]

I also love her voice. Remarkable lady. 💕💕💕

[@marquitasozio4459]

I absolutely ADORE Maggie Smith. She is the most wonderful actress of the 20th-21st Century. God bless her!

[@myb3tv34]

Agree 100%. I have been in awe of her since I was about 10 or 12 years old. I can't remember exactly how old I was b/c it was decades ago!

[@TheMinoom]

What an interesting human being. Absolutely adore her.

[@smokedoliver1]

I saw “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” when I was a young man just learning about life and fell in love with Miss Smith then and I never forgot her. She showed me what a real actor could do. I’m still learning from her.

[@QueenVee48]

I so enjoyed this video part 1 and part 2, thank you. I love and adore Maggie Smith and have for many years, whatever she is in I watch. Recently my grandniece in England sent me a movie I was unable to get in the USA - From Time to Time, I have watched it over and over and now even have some of the characters on my computer wall. I cannot begin to tell you how much I appreciate happening on this video and how much it is enjoyed. Brilliant, she is a wonderful actress.

[@ih82r8]

I've only known her acting in my lifetime as an old woman and I just love her performances.

[@hannahmithhinten5230]

She's greatest in tragedy. - I wholeheartedly agree with everything he said there and I'm actually quite sad, that this side of Maggie is kind of being slept on nowadays. I'd loved to see her in a role such as Judith Hearne again now. She is, of course, wonderful in comedies and I love her wit, but there's so much more to her. Thanks for uploading this.

[@duncann]

I love Maggie Smith, but having watched this I think I'm now slightly terrified of her! It was - thankfully - an intellectual analysis of her career and an actor's and director's insight into her. I'd forgotten how stunning and unique-looking she was in the 1970s. I once saw her sweep past many years ago in London and she was strking.

[@nickbigd]

Bed Among the Lentils is one of my favorite piecs of acting of all time. I remember watching it on television when it first aired, and I was just floored. She is so sublimely talented. Thanks for posting this.

[@VidMediumNS]

I see her as a great empathetic person. She cares so dearly and deeply about the character being portrayed for simply the person who is going through always a most tragic moment. She can be savage of course but that is not a lack of care. Her understanding of the people who she is portraying is what makes her so remarkable. But not just her character alone and not just the characters on set. It seems she sets out to teach character to others as she preserves characters of others. Reason why we love her. She relates and she cares. I'm very sorry about her battle with cancer. I can't be more than that. She has always brought out the best in her audience.

[@SuzanAtito]

Love her!!

[@bangersmash1566]

Amazing lady! Truly a master. I concur that no one is better.

[@lisetostrupsetek6730]

Fascinated! She is just wonderful!

[@wwbdblevewevebeen5383]

Always browsing the treasure trove of films on here for those that are the "Quintessential Maggie"

[@transquery]

@stingoo I was thinking the exact same thing. If only they had made a Thatcher film when Maggie Smith was in her 40s/50s. I think she would be absolutely terrific.

[@Hephaestud]

Thank you for the upload. What a gift! : )

[@nazarethbeltrame1128]

Love Maggie!Thanks for the video!

[@Lozzeii]

I really thank you for uploading this!

[@KuiWagacha]

Oh, and THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS, of COURSE!!!

[@emma41093]

Thank you for uploading this

[@ardills]

thanks for uploading it, I have found it most interesting, I'm a great fan of hers.

[@mirrenfan2]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! :D This isn't on my region 1 DVD set. I didn't even know it existed!

[@juttasahm3996]

I love and admire her!

[@galesinclair2015]

Wonderful lady.

[@kandorstevenson]

...she is just, sublime.

[@karlakor]

I was thinking the same thing myself. I keep gesturing to move them along!

[@gigiray7413]

Magnificent!

[@jamaicahood]

love love this lady Maggie Smith

[@2legit64]

@nickbigd I agree with you wholeheartedly. She was absolutely magnificent in the role of Susan. I saw it when it initially was aired on PBS in the 90s and again recently and it still packs a punch. She has a beautiful way of conveying nuanced emotion that is unsurpassed by any artist on the stage or screen today.

[@KuiWagacha]

..And I forgot to say HARD-WORKING, in my comments in the first part (sorry if you're bored of my admiration for this DAME.) I relate to her very much, (wary of people, gets bored easily, defensive, perfectionist, HONEST with herself and others -SHOWING others how to TREAT her... Not suffering Fools... which I currently am...and I would wish to be more like her. (More screaming as a fan!!!)

[@peterbradshaw8018]

The VIPs and the Millionairess ........ need I say more.

[@shlokamsrivastava6782]

I adore her and love her

[@sophie-annew7743]

An interesting trivial: when they interviewed Alan Bennet from his study, it looks exact the same as the study in ‘The Lady in the Van’.

[@brendadrew834]

Brilliant actress, so veddy, veddy British! Love her as Lady Violet in Downton Abbey, both the series and the recent great movie. Her one line zingers are just as priceless as she is! BTW, check out the English subtitles on this documentary. Every time one of the speakers says "um" or 'uh" it's spelled incorrectly as "erm" or "er"...a bit annoying. Thanks~

[@christinewendt3660]

That is how those syllables are pronounced and spelt in British English.

[@Orion227]

She is an introvert in an extrovert profession.

[@aonehouseboy4945]

Really? She is the filling in a casing. If so many actors who rate themselves introvert, private, etc have to in their profession display the life of another, even a character that exists only as a writer's conception, then it is not the actor that is being portrayed and thus "extrovert" but an "idea" even if the work is historical or biographical. In acting there is an exchange of filling and casing of the actor with the filling and casing of the character.

[@zareenasaeed8880]

Comes across as an honest actor.

[@cunever]

Yup, that's necessary because they're not subtitles. What you have here is a audio-description. One of the principles of which is the utter faithfulness to what's audible.

[@michaelreilly3513]

An audio, not a audio.

[@ableadelaide5893]

It's hillarious how they each take one another so seriously, as though they are pondering the greatest human acheivements being acting lol.

[@BogdanHonciuc]

She would have played an amazing Margaret Thatcher.

[@JanetteHeffernan]

"You were marvellous darling!"

[@willym9836]

Dear lord don't tell us how wonderful she is - we know that already. I saw it in four seasons at Stratford in Canada. Show us - give us clips, give us examples. We don't want it second hand.

[@irefi64]

Yes, I was thinking along the same lines myself. Like some grey-suited botanists droning about the beauty of flowers when they could be showing us the exquisite blooms themselves.

[@adeleschulze]

@oatmealpornography the subtitles are part of the video. I didn't make them.

[@sherkan2]

I don't think he was implying that you made them. I agree about the subtitles though, it's really annoying.

[@rah62]

Was the subtitle typist deaf? The people didn't say "erm" - they said "um". They didn't say "er", they said "uh". They didn't say "cos", they said "cause".

[@jenniferpearce1052]

"Erm" is pronounced "um" and "er" is pronounced "uh". Watch a British movie with a character named Jennifer, and you'll find she's called "Jennifuh". "Cos" is also commonly used where an American would write "cuz".

[@terrynstasha]

If you read more you will see that UM and UH are always written as ERM and ER. So they did it correctly.

[@nicster0808]

simon Callow ONLY talks about other people in terms of himself.

[@KuiWagacha]

Luv... he's SUPPOSED to as this doc is NOT about HIMSELF but HIS PERCEPTIONS!!! (Sorry about the Capitals, I'm not screaming at you, only passionate.) I love Simon Callow too...despite his HORRENDOUS American accent in AMADEUS.

[@mpilarb]

well I think that detail is not important at all, the documentary it's great; she´s one of my favorite actress of all times.

[@jimhall167]

This wonderful presentation of the attributes of an actress I admire more than any other was nearly ruined by the ridiculous sub- and super-titles. Why were they there? The language spoken and the language written were the same!

[@antoniovelazquez9869]

it does help a lot when english is not your mother tongue, and british accent is hard to grasp (as is my case)

[@hearttune98]

Please don’t forget those hard of hearing as well.

[@eden19966]

Erm....erm.....erm......erm....erm...er....erm......can´t anyone here talk without adding erm into every sentence?

[@rah62]

They didn't say "erm". They said "um". Why did the typist change "um" to "erm" and "cause " to "cos"? It drove me nuts.

[@ChucksCherubs]

No.

[@storybellz]

Is it weird that I can't bring myself to enjoy "The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearn" mainly b/c Irish accents irritate me terribly? Does anyone else avoid certain film and TV, not b/c of the content, but b/c of something as seemingly trivial as that, that just flat-out grates on your nerves?!

[@jenniferpearce1052]

Yup. Some actors have faces that I just don't like looking at. Not necessarily ugliness, but somehow disturbing in a way I just can't stand looking at.

[@evelynfarland2337]

L