All life is a series of problems which we must try and solve

The Dowager Countess Violet Crawley, of Downton Abbey.

(As played by the great Dame Maggie Smith)

The Dowager Countess: if I were to search for logic, I wouldn’t look in the English upper class.

Dame Maggie Smith

Best actress on TV on the best show on TV. All hail the Dowager Countess!

Downton Abbey Scores 12 Emmy Nominations. Including Best Drama, Best Actor in Hugh Bonneville, Best Actress, Michelle Dockery. Best Supporting Actor Jim Carter and Best Supporting Actress in Dame Maggie Smith. This is a decent, lovely show with a lot of humanity and family drama.

Gosford Park is a 2001 British mystery comedy-drama film directed by Robert Altman and written by Julian Fellowes.

It stars so many people from the UK that we know. Dame Helen Mirren, Dame Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas and many many more! There are so many Fandom connections here I can’t begin to list them all. This is our Friday night movie.

From Time To Time: I will give you 6 good reasons to see this movie; ITV/PBS “Downton Abbey’s” Dame Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville, Allen Leech, David Robb, Christine Lohr and Julian Fellowes. A bonus reason is Dominic West from BBC’s “The Hour” and Timothy Spall from “Harry Potter”

Its about a young man who goes to visit his grandmother’s estate during World War Two and things in the house take him back to earlier times in the history of the family. It’s a good flick.

It’s like this movie was a test film for a good number of the Downton Abbey cast.

How Maggie Smith’s looks have helped her long career – 60 Minutes Overtime – CBS News

If you’re a fan of the television show “Downton Abbey,” you are most likely a fanatic of Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham, the imperious matriarch of a British aristocratic family – and the source of the most memorable lines in the weekly PBS series.

Before tonight’s season finale tune into 60 Minutes on CBS at 7:00 PM to see the full interview with Dame Maggie Smith.

How Maggie Smith’s looks have helped her long career – 60 Minutes Overtime – CBS News