WashPost obituary: Maggie Smith, ebullient scene-stealer of stage and screen, dies at 89
"American impresario Leonard Sillman spotted her in a London revue in 1955. He cast her the next year in his Broadway show “New Faces of 1956,” in which she sang the ditty “One Perfect Moment” and made an unlikely impression as the showgirl Miss Bowls of Sunshine draped in oranges.
After a seven-month run, she returned to England and, in the comedy “Share My Lettuce,” sang a showstopping number while twirling a rope of beads from her neck to her waist and back again."