Westport News film critic Susan Granger reviews the new movie, “The Lady in the Van.” Dame Maggie Smith — a.k.a. Dowager Countess of Grantham on TV’s “Downton Abbey” — stars in Alan Bennett’s ...
Connoisseurs of stage and screen should be thankful for December 1934. On Dec. 9, 1934, Maggie Smith popped out in Romford, Essex, and announced her arrival. Nineteen days later, on Dec. 28, 1934, ...