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Maggie Smith was a formidable actor with a biting wit and a fearsome ability to deliver lines

By Jen Harvie, Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance, Queen Mary University of London

It is a testament to the power of the late British actress Dame Maggie Smith that other eminent actors – though only male ones, as far as I can see – accused her of upstaging them.

Richard Burton complained that in Anthony Asquith’s 1963 film The VIPs, she…

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