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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was this latter work, as Desdemona in Sir Laurence Olivier's 1965 Othello, that earned Smith her first Oscar ... played by ...

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

“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.

Beloved actor Maggie Smith died yesterday at 89 ... she was starring in the National Theatre as Desdemona opposite Laurence Olivier’s Othello and swiftly became a leading light of the British ...

In a fêted seven-decade career spanning stage, screen, and television — never once proving less than incredible, with her protuberant eyes and wry tone — Dame Maggie Smith was a national ...

He continued: “Get me back another time, and I’ll tell you about when Maggie Smith met Shirley MacLaine ... in theatre working with Lord Laurence Olivier at the Old Vic during the National ...

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 ...