Maggie Smith Meets Her Nephew

[@ophs1980]

Maggie Smith was one of our greatest actors. Every time she said a line in "Murder by Death" I lost it. "Oh Dickie... that's tacky. That's really tacky" was her response to David Niven explaining what someone would want to do with a dead naked body. Drama or Comedy....no one comes close to Dame Maggie Smith. RIP

[@zyxw2024]

She's one of our greatest actors too. 😊

[@gentlemanjake8005]

Like many George Cukor films, it’s silly at first glance but very touching if you look past that. Maggie Smith gives one of the great performances ever.

[@orlandodiola7076]

One of my favorite Dame Maggie film, such a living legend and treasure

[@srkh8966]

An Auntie Mame lookalike

[@eugenefox3639]

God bless Dame Maggie Smith, magnificent and incomparable

[@franzgrabe1]

Maggie Smith as brilliant as ever!!

[@ironguanyin123]

Do you know the name of this film? Thanks.

[@margarethhoughton6782]

@@ironguanyin123 Travels with my aunt

[@FemiNelson-sb1em]

​@@margarethhoughton6782 Gracias Gracias! Paz be with us all 🙏. "Isa"

[@henrikechers9995]

Love this movie. It has everything - hurt, love, action, humor and heart

[@Jennianner]

I agree! Maggie Smith was wonderful in it ....

[@Isabella-nh5dm]

This was a great film. I loved Maggie Smith. Such a talented woman.

[@jaygatz4335]

Love this film. It's a visual delight - sets and costumes are outstanding. Alec McCowan was terrific here, as he was in Hitchcock's Frenzy around the same time. I always wanted the soundtrack album with Tony Hatch's elegant music, but they didn't release one. I did manage to get the large format movie poster, however.

[@natalianatalia4032]

Please, what is the name of this film?

[@agadoin]

@@natalianatalia4032’Travels with my Aunt’, I think.

[@stuntkittyfilms]

This is perhaps one of my very, very favorite films.

[@janicesmyth1713]

Please, please the whole film . It’s one of her best. ❤

[@stevecharters8965]

The aging make-up may look a little unconvincing by modern standards - or by contrast with what Maggie Smith actually looks like now she has attained that age herself - but the charm of her performance in this film was always in the way she portrays the same character at different stages in her life from 18 to 80 while she and her 'nephew' travel across Europe together.

[@rosesmith4318]

This was one of my all time favorite Maggie Smith🌹🌹👏🌹

[@thomascassidy8347]

Fabulous and brilliant Maggie❤❤

[@thomascassidy8347]

She was also stunning in Prime of miss Jean brody❤

[@janicesmyth1713]

One of the funniest films ever made.

[@Jo-yp8wy]

Omg. I remember those telephone cords. Absolutely loved this film. Trying to find a full, free version.

[@mariuspoppFM]

It's on Rarelust or KZbin

[@troygaspard6732]

Travels With My Aunt is Graham Green's most adapted novel. This film is a great adaptation.

[@ReneeOfTheFae]

Thank you for posting this. I was trying to find the name of the film before posting the query.

[@alexilsley897]

The young dowager countess 😂

[@djgualtiermaldeCO]

before meeting the Marquis de Mon Miraí

[@johnryman-f3c]

There will never be anther Dame Maggie

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

02:30 "Is this an instrument of communication...or torture?" 😂

[@euchrideucrow1970]

I spent many happy nights in that pub. It’s still there and still looks very much the same.

[@maestroclassico5801]

Alec McGowan was 9 years older than Maggie! 😀

[@joeseeking3572]

Some novels are best performed in your own mind, and I think this is one. Then again, for a time, Greene was catnip for filmmakers.

[@janeelstree4984]

Double diamond - brings back memories….😮

[@persistentdreams]

Have seen it several times. This really is a funny and touching film.

[@antonmarino6568]

Absolute treasure. R.I.P.

[@Autostade67]

A pity she never played Madame Armfeldt in "A Little Night Music" - now THAT would be something!

[@bradleym7319]

Auntie Mame too on Broadway would have been fantastic!!

[@maestroclassico5801]

When A Little Night Music first came out she would've been better as Desiree'

[@carolilseanne2175]

Wonderful film superb performances by Alec McGowan and Maggie Smith. Travels with My Aunt ❤❤❤ I lived next door to his real Aunt - she wasn't a bit like this 🤗

[@jmax3245]

Graham Greene HATED this adaptation of his Novel and walked out after a few minutes!

[@jeraldbaxter3532]

What is the title of this movie? I want to see it all. Maggie Smith is fantastic!

[@ironguanyin123]

I just did some research and found out it's Travels with My Aunt, based on the novel by Graham Greene. He's a great writer, and many of his books have been turned into film. They are definitely worth a read. I remember I was a bit obsessed by him when I was at uni. I read several of his novels, they are well written and very easy to read, and some are quite like a detective novel.

[@popazz1]

@@ironguanyin123 'Brighton Rock' being one of Greene's works which transferred well to the screen.

[@orlandodiola7076]

Travels With My Aunt

[@jeraldbaxter3532]

@@orlandodiola7076 Thank you!

[@Autostade67]

Re: the make up - actually it's damn good considering Alec McCowen was NINE years Maggie Smith's senior but playing someone young enough to be her son.

[@JMJ132]

What is the title of this film? I’d like to see it.

[@mariuspoppFM]

@@JMJ132 Travels with my aunt

[@JMJ132]

@@mariuspoppFM Thank you!

[@claranism]

K Hepburn was originally cast as Aunt Augusta but was infamously fired by the producer n replaced by Dame Maggie, cos Hepburn was rewriting the line n demanding improvements to the scripts. Smith was only 37 then n thr explained the ghastly aging makeup she had on

[@CharlieChilders-wm9gb]

Explaining the reason Hepburn got fired. Kate answered "why does anyone get fired? Because they are not doing their job-I wasn't doing my job!"

[@stevouk]

Maggie Smith (born 1934) playing the aunt of Alec McCowen (born 1925). How I wish she had remade this film when the was the age of the character she was actually meant to be, perhaps using the same flashbacks as Cukor shot.

[@58christiansful]

She could do the grotesque high-camp aunt at the drop of a hat. I believe she also did another Aunt Augusta - Lady Bracknell -on stage.

[@1psoas9]

indeed she did. We can hope that some film of that may turn up. It would be just home-movie stuff, but there might have been some piracy or backstage grabs.... THough the lady herself often said she could not bear to watch herself onscreen, so there was probably not one made for her private use.

[@tommoncrieff1154]

Yes. I went to see that. It was in the early 90s with Richard E Grant. Hilarious and beautifully observed.

[@nicolamarchbank1846]

I'm getting Kenneth Williams vibes from this.

[@richardlevy1459]

You may know this but they were close and she credits him for changing her approach to acting and copying him from time to time.

[@nicolamarchbank1846]

@@richardlevy1459 I did, I saw an old interview with them talking and I read his diaries years ago. You can really see the influence in her more comic performances. You have to wonder what he would have thought about her famous era in the 21st century. He'd have been thrilled about her Damehood.

[@JorgeAl]

Love this film ❤

[@Shelsight]

What’s the film? Did I miss it in the headline?

[@Isabella-nh5dm]

Travels With My Aunt

[@martymacdonald420]

Travels with my Aunt

[@lesleyhoban6559]

What is the film's name pls

[@euchrideucrow1970]

Travels With My Aunt

[@peterbassey9668]

Sweet, dainty England back when she was still English!! Sighhh!!!

[@paulruane6489]

It is a bit, a lot, of a pity and very frustrating not to be able to see the film in full, all of it, from the start to the end. Is this 9:41 min. to wet our appetite and send us running to the pay-to-view sites?

[@gacharose1738]

travels with my aunt.

[@kgotsimpoke6617]

Where can I watch this?

[@FemiNelson-sb1em]

What is the name of this movie, anyone please? Paz be with us all 🙏. "Isa"

[@veenamishra8950]

Travels with my aunt

[@veenamishra8950]

Travels with my aunt

[@YouTubingz]

🕯

[@sianwarwick633]

Ah, the Chandos

[@cambler8558]

What film is this, please?

[@veenamishra8950]

Travels with my aunt

[@dee4174]

What is the film called?

[@ohthatpaul]

_Travels with My Aunt_ (1972), directed by George Cukor and a must-see!!

[@t.p.mckenna]

Sorry to be an anorak, but doesn't anyone recognise the cemetery?

[@bartvanos1466]

It s st.Pancrass cemetery in London

[@t.p.mckenna]

@@bartvanos1466 Well done. You've got it. They come out on to the High Road, East Finchley, which looks nothing as pretty today.

[@t.p.mckenna]

@@bartvanos1466 One thing that threw me and sent me on a wild goose chase was the bus that passes by as they board the taxi. It's a 104, except that's an East London route (Stratford to Becton). The penny finally dropped that the bus was actually a prop. It was a bit of touristic window dressing for the American audience.

[@bojack40]

Maggie brilliant despite the make up artist on this film doing the worst job ever!

[@eduardodifarnecio2336]

Omg this was a misfire. I’ve no idea how I wound up watching this clunker but even our beloved Maggie couldn’t save it.

[@notnek202]

What movie ?

[@veenamishra8950]

Travels with my aunt

[@notnek202]

@@veenamishra8950 thank you 😊

[@Michaelneiss]

I often been asking myself from time to time whether Maggie happened to be a survivor of a dreadful disease called _anorexia_ . In that case - what a fighter!

[@cato1684]

What an extremely strange thing to ask.

[@judithtremaine2525]

Smith stepped in at the last minute when Katharine Hepburn pulled out lacking the confidence to play young at 70+. The film has fun moments but is really a mess and was buried for years.

[@mariuspoppFM]

No more messy than your bedroom

[@carolinemarierafaellevanhu1740]

👍

[@melfortune5855]

Has Maggie ever been young???

[@pedanticradiator1491]

In this film she plays her character as both a young and old woman

[@FemiNelson-sb1em]

So rude! Paz be with us all 🙏. "Isa"

[@c.a.savage5689]

Yes. Google The Prime of Miss Jean Brody.