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Maggie Smith’s Greatest Literary Role is Also Her Most Complex: Miss Jean Brodie

“This is one of those rare instances in which a film adaptation isn’t measured by how well it adheres to the novel, but the ways in which it illuminates the original work even further.”

—Vanessa Braganza on the 1969 film adaptation of Muriel Spark’s novel

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Literary Hub · Maggie Smith’s Greatest Literary Role is Also Her Most Complex: Miss Jean Brodie“Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.” It was certainly true of me. My sense of what life ought to feel like has long been colored by a streak of purple and scarlet acr…

Maggie Smith, who died last month, won an Oscar for her role in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," the 1969 adaptation of Muriel Spark's novel. Vanessa Braganza writes for LitHub about Smith's brilliant performance. "This is one of those rare instances in which a film adaptation isn’t measured by how well it adheres to the novel, but the ways in which it illuminates the original work even further," she writes. "Smith performs Jean Brodie as a creature of opposites, and as magnetic as she is complex." Here's more.

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Literary Hub · Maggie Smith’s Greatest Literary Role is Also Her Most Complex: Miss Jean Brodie“Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.” It was certainly true of me. My sense of what life ought to feel like has long been colored by a streak of purple and scarlet acr…

I know when the news came that Dame Maggie Smith had died, a lot of folks expressed enjoying or wanting to enjoy "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel". That film is now free to view (with ads, but handily blocked by good ad blockers) on US YouTube.

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