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Topic: Maggie Smith

English actress Maggie Smith holding a copy of the Evening Standard newspaper outside Mcann-Erickson House in Fetter Lane, London, 22nd August 1957. (Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The prime of Dame Maggie Smith is a gift

Melanie McFarland
Dame Maggie Smith attends the 65th Evening Standard Theatre Awards at London Coliseum on November 24, 2019 in London, England. (Karwai Tang/WireImage/Getty Images)

Dame Maggie Smith dies at 89

Gabriella Ferrigine
Computer keyboard and meadow flowers (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

She could make this place beautiful

Erin Keane
AnnaLynne McCord and Amanda Gorman (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Viral poems in a time of war

Alison Stine
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"Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change" by Maggie Smith (Photo illustration by Salon/Patri Hadad/Atria/One Signal Publishers)

Maggie Smith never stopped moving

Nicole Karlis
Laura Carmichael stars as Lady Hexham, Elizabeth McGovern as Lady Grantham and Michelle Dockery stars as Lady Mary Talbot in DOWNTON ABBEY, a Focus Features release. (Liam Daniel / © 2019 Focus Features, LLC)

"Downton Abbey": A fan service folly

Melanie McFarland
(Reuters/Dylan Martinez/Mario Anzuoni)

Golden Globes: Women over 40

Nico Lang
Elizabeth McGovern, Michelle Dockery and Laura Carmichael of "Downton Abbey" (Carnival Films)

America's "Downton" obsession

Sonia Saraiya
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Prachi Gupta
Pauline Collins and Maggie Smith in "Quartet"

Lost love among aging legends

Andrew O'Hehir

Mark Haskell Smith
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