Auntie Margaret

We have this exact photo framed and on our wall in the hall - with the Great Dame's autograph beneath. [click to embiggen]

It's our Patron Saint Dame Maggie's birthday today! All hail.

Another opportunity for a little "recycling", methinks.

From a post I did way back in 2013, featuring her early star vehicle Travels With My Aunt:

To my chagrin, I have never yet seen the entire movie. I was too young for the original cinematic release, and don't recall it ever appearing on TV over here. However from the meagre evidence I have seen, Dame Maggie Smith appears to be having a field day, camping it up as "Aunt Augusta"...

Maggie Smith - Travels With My Aunt - Funeral Scene

Maggie Smith - Travels With My Aunt preview clip

Many happy returns, Dame Margaret Natalie Smith CH DBE (born 28th December 1934)

More Aunt madness

“Soon after meeting his Aunt Augusta, he has had a run-in with the police, smoked weed on the Orient Express, smuggled money and been offered sex in a brothel in Paris.”

News that the lovely Menier Chocolate Factory is bringing back to London Giles Havergal's farcical all-male stage production of Graham Greene's Travels With My Aunt sent me immediately off to the interwebs for clips of the big screen version from the 70s.

To my chagrin, I have never yet seen the entire movie. I was too young for the original cinematic release, and don't recall it ever appearing on TV over here. However from the meagre evidence I have seen, Dame Maggie Smith appears to be having a field day, camping it up as "Aunt Augusta"...

Maggie Smith - Travels With My Aunt - Funeral Scene

Maggie Smith - Travels With My Aunt preview clip

"Aunts" seem popular at the Menier Chocolate Factory. Travels With My Aunt is on from 2nd May to 29th June 2013. I think we may try and get tickets...