Tea with Mussolini (1999) - IMDb
Tea with Mussolini: Directed by Franco Zeffirelli. With Cher, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith. An orphaned Italian boy is raised amongst a circle of British and American women living in Mussolini's Italy before and during World War II.
8 Wonderful Movies You Forgot Maggie Smith Was In
Oct 1, 2024 · While the first film took place in Victorian England, the second film took place during World War II. Maggie plays Mrs. Docherty, the owner of the shop where Isabel works, and seems to have a screw loose.
A Private Function (1984) - IMDb
A Private Function: Directed by Malcolm Mowbray. With Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott, Richard Griffiths. In post-World War II Britain, food rationing continues, leading a married couple to become involved in the flourishing bacon black market.
Cinema: Tea With Mussolini - TIME
May 24, 1999 · All that becomes harder to do when Italy enters World War II. Maggie Smith and Judi Dench are glorious comic actresses, while Joan Plowright provides a firm, touching moral center to the...
From Time To Time Movie
In the final stages of World War II, thirteen-year-old Tolly (Alex Etel) is sent to spend Christmas with his grandmother Mrs Oldknow (Maggie Smith), far from wartime London. Within the ancient family manor estate, Green Knowe, Tolly is magically transported back in time to the Napoleonic period, drawn into participating in the family drama.
From the archives: Maggie Smith - Yahoo
Sep 28, 2024 · Dame Maggie Smith, whose luminous career included two Academy Awards and a Tony, died on Friday, September 27, 2024, at age 89.
Revered Dench and Smith Take an Ordinary Turn - NPR
May 1, 2005 · Judy Dench and Maggie Smith co-star in the film Ladies in Lavender. Set on Britain's Cornwall coast just before World War II, the movie is the bittersweet story of two aging sisters whose...
FILM; Dotty, Determined and Excessively Fond of Il Duce
Aug 23, 1998 · ''WHY shouldn't Mussolini have an empire?'' asks Lady Hester Random, an imperious British expatriate played by Maggie Smith in a new Franco Zeffirelli film.
From Time To Time (2009) - darkmatterzine.com
Tolly (Alex Etel) arrives at a train station during World War II, to be met by Boggis (Timothy Spall, Wormtail in Harry Potter), who is Tolly’s grandmother’s servant. Tolly’s grandmother is the indomitable Dame Maggie Smith.
Maggie Smith: Dame of British Theatre and Cinema
Sep 28, 2024 · Her family relocated to Oxford just before the outbreak of World War II, where her father, a pathologist at Oxford University, introduced her to an environment of intellectual curiosity and exploration. It was in Oxford that Smith began to pursue her love of acting, studying at the Oxford Playhouse School from 1951 to 1953.