# Dame Maggie Smith has died **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies, celebrity-death\ **Created:** [September 27, 2024, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dame-maggie-smith-has-died/1007798 "2024-09-27T14:28:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2024, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dame-maggie-smith-has-died/1007798/41 "2024-09-29T13:21:28Z")
In addition to her considerable body of work, I will always remember her for this anecdote as told by the late great Kenneth Williams: > ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2024, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dame-maggie-smith-has-died/1007798/42 "2024-09-29T14:11:17Z")
I started watching the Haŕry Potter series last week. Maggie was very good. Richard Harris, Michael Gambon, and Robbie Coltrane are gone. Bit by bit the older actors in those movies are dying. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2024, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dame-maggie-smith-has-died/1007798/43 "2024-09-29T14:15:47Z")
We lost Snape a while back also. Alan Rickman died in 2016 at only 69. Pancreatic cancer got him. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2024, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dame-maggie-smith-has-died/1007798/44 "2024-09-29T14:24:56Z")
I’d forgotten _Sister Act_. You could only see Maggie and cast’s faces in the Nuns Habit. > **[Maggie Smith remembered by Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Whoopi Goldberg and...](https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/beloved-actress-maggie-smith-remembered-tributes/story?id=114282330)** > > Tributes are pouring in for Maggie Smith as Daniel Radcliffe, Whoopi Goldberg and more honor the beloved British actress. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2024, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dame-maggie-smith-has-died/1007798/45 "2024-09-29T15:46:39Z")
I had never watched Downton Abbey, but I think I’m going to add it to my (ever expanding) watchlist of shows to catch up on if I ever find the time. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2024, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dame-maggie-smith-has-died/1007798/46 "2024-09-29T15:57:04Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > Evil Under the Sun is one of my favorites of hers – she gets to drawl and purr insults at Diana Rigg’s character, all with perfectly plausible deniability. She makes that movie, one way and another. I think the first thing I saw her in was her _other_ Poirot outing; she doesn’t exactly make that movie, and wasn’t meant to, but for what they needed they used her to perfect effect: it’s obvious that Bette Davis was hired to flash her eyes and deliver bitchy quips, and, by heaven, _someone_ needs to stand next to her and give as good as she gets in kind… ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2024, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dame-maggie-smith-has-died/1007798/47 "2024-09-29T20:37:57Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > [x.com](https://x.com/kennethwilllams/status/1193092008803524609?s=46&t=1WI5QGWOFS_kgZYtrWjIzw) I need closed captions for this. What the heck is he saying? I understood the word “braaaaaa” but almost nothing else. > [@LurkMeister](#): > > I had never watched Downton Abbey, but I think I’m going to add it to my (ever expanding) watchlist of shows to catch up on if I ever find the time. Eh, I watched season one and only a bit of season two. I hated all the characters and didn’t care what happened to any of them. Soppy worship of the upper classes. I had to give it up. Good actors, but the whole thing turned rancid for me very quickly. ---
**Author:** ![colinfred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colinfred/32/21338_2.png) [@colinfred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colinfred)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2024, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dame-maggie-smith-has-died/1007798/48 "2024-09-29T20:44:55Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > I need closed captions for this. Kenneth and Maggie go to Fortum and Mason’s (a very upscale shop) Maggie goes to the assistant and tries to buy a particular bra. Upon being informed of the price she says “7 Guineas?? Cheaper to have your tits off!” Not very amusing imho, but your milage may vary. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2024, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dame-maggie-smith-has-died/1007798/49 "2024-09-29T20:46:31Z")
Thank you. Yeah, not terribly amusing. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2024, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dame-maggie-smith-has-died/1007798/50 "2024-09-29T20:51:09Z")
Don’t write off Maggie Smith’s entire career because of these two things. On the other hand, why not? ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2024, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dame-maggie-smith-has-died/1007798/51 "2024-09-29T21:03:06Z")
Um, I’m not. It’s just that particular series I really disliked, not Maggie. I’m a _big_ fan of hers. ---
**Author:** ![TPWombat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TPWombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TPWombat)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dame-maggie-smith-has-died/1007798/52 "2024-09-30T20:06:30Z")
Funny (to me anyways) if heard in Kenneth Williams’ voice ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dame-maggie-smith-has-died/1007798/53 "2024-09-30T21:28:41Z")
Most things are. Also, one has to consider that not only was he telling the story in 1980, the actual event happened in the 60’s. Saying “Cheaper to have your tits off” to a snooty store assistant is funny enough now, but outright scandalous when she did it. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dame-maggie-smith-has-died/1007798/54 "2024-10-02T04:58:23Z")
Especially in Fortnum’s, which was even more up itself then than now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dame-maggie-smith-has-died/1007798.md?page=2)