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I Enjoyed Bette Davis's Maggie Smith Impersonation

posted 12 years ago by lovethathat
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[–] slou61 12 years ago

I believe you have that backwards.....not that Maggie isn't wonderful but Bette is not only the original, but the standard. :)

[–] lovethathat 12 years ago

Uh..that was the joke. Not that funny, i know, but it whiles away the hours.

Perhaps it was just me, but Bette Davis 1987 reminds me of Maggie Smith 2007. Not hugely, just a bit.
I found her acting was odd, why did she speak in such a strange way? Was Libby supposed to have recovered from a stroke?

[–] jac91604 12 years ago

Guess you're not aware or you're trying to be funny, but Betted Davis had a stroke in 1983.

I think it is pretty amazing that she worked at all after that.

[–] lovethathat 12 years ago

I did not know that. That would explain it, thanks.

[–] judygmartin 9 years ago

Stroke or not, the real old Bette Davis, came shining through. Thoroughly enjoyable.

[–] Chiscully 7 years ago

Agreed!

[–] ace-150 9 years ago

You should probably watch 1978's Death on the Nile, in which Bette Davis plays a cranky old lady and Maggie Smith plays her cranky old paid companion.