In this adaptation of Shakespeareâ s tragedy, Dame Maggie Smith takes on the role of Desdemona, the innocent and tragic wife of Laurence Olivierâ ... complements Olivier's intense performance ...

It's understandable that most movie and TV fans remember Maggie Smith for her dynamic ... first and foremost a stage actor. She joined Laurence Olivier's National Theatre in the early 1960s ...

I first became aware of Maggie in 1964, when I was 15 years old, and my mother had taken me to see Othello with Laurence ...

"Maggie Smith, one of the true Greats along with [Laurence] Olivier and [John] Gielgud… those who saw her dazzling talent on ...

Dame Maggie Smith's flair for both comedy and ... She won the first of six Oscar nominations in 1965, starring opposite Laurence Olivier in "Othello", before scooping the prize four years later ...

He continued: “Get me back another time, and I’ll tell you about when Maggie Smith met Shirley MacLaine ... in theatre ...

Sir Laurence Olivier was one of Britain’s most acclaimed actors ... It was where famous friends —including Maggie Smith, Alan Bennett, David Niven and Ian McKellen— came to visit, and where they ...

“I had Judi Dench and Maggie Smith... I could have shot the telephone ... winning two Oscars and working with fellow stars including Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud and Alan Bennett.

A seven-bedroom Elizabethan farmhouse that belonged to the revered British actors Sir Laurence Olivier and Dame Joan ... likes of Dame Judi Dench, Dame Maggie Smith and Dame Eileen Atkins, to ...