Since Dame Maggie Smith’s recent passing, I’ve been reminded of a lesson she taught me about the power of good stories, especially when they end up in books. Smith, who died last month at 89, is best ...

Dame Maggie Smith, the actress, who has died aged 89, was a stylist and a wit whose cool, lacquered voice, suffer-no-fools personality and sophisticated manners gave all her work, whether on stage or ...

“I cannot accept ‘merely.’ I do not do anything ‘merely,’” says Lettice Douffet, a tour guide to a stately English home with an epic history of dullness in Peter Shaffer’s 1987 play “Lettice and ...

LONDON (AP) -- Maggie Smith, the masterful, scene-stealing actor who won an Oscar for the 1969 film "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of ...

LONDON (AP) — Maggie Smith, the masterful, scene-stealing actor who won an Oscar for the 1969 film “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of ...

LONDON (AP) — Maggie Smith, the masterful, scene-stealing actor who won an Oscar for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” in 1969 and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham ...

LONDON (AP) — Maggie Smith, the masterful, scene-stealing actor who won an Oscar for 1969 film “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of ...