"She's better on stage, from a distance. On a screen, close up, she makes you want to dive for cover."
— Elsa Lanchester

January 1, 1970

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On Maggie Smith. Attributed in Boze Hadleigh (ed.) Hollywood Babble On: Stars Gossip About Other Stars (USA: Carol, 1994) p. 57