No role seemed to be featured more than her Oscar-winning performance in the film adaptation of Muriel Spark’s novel “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.” ...

“The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,” which was adapted from the 1961 novel by Muriel Spark, centers on a young teacher at an elite school for girls in 1930s Scotland. The play follows Brodie and a ...

In 1970, she won a best actress Oscar for 1969’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, the adaptation of the Muriel Spark novel about the Edinburgh schoolteacher with an admiration for Mussolini.

The two-time Oscar winner, who first won an Academy Award for her unforgettable performance in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), found a new wave of fame in recent years as the sharp-tongued ...

Early in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, the 1969 film starring Maggie Smith in an Oscar-winning performance, Smith stands in front of a classroom of young teenage girls and informs them that they ...

While Miss Brodie’s window closed much sooner, Smith’s prime went on for decades, gracing audiences until the age of 89. How fortunate we were that she never stopped working.

Hussey was 15 when director Franco Zeffirelli cast her in his adaptation of the William Shakespeare tragedy after spotting her onstage in the play “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," which also ...

Smith, who won an Oscar for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” in 1969 and won new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in “Downton Abbey,” has died at 89.

Hussey was 15 when director Franco Zeffirelli cast her in his adaptation of the William Shakespeare tragedy after spotting her onstage in the play “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," which also ...

Hussey was 15 when director Franco Zeffirelli cast her in his adaptation of the William Shakespeare tragedy after spotting her onstage in the play “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," which also ...