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1. (2002) While a few of Maggie's characters that she's played can be described as being witchy, this one is a bona fide witch who teaches Transfiguration to the students at Hogwarts. Name the second movie in this amazing series about that boy with the interesting scar.
2. (1968) Maggie plays a rather inept secretary, and aspiring musician who finds that the man she's married, and whose child she is carrying, is guilty of computer fraud. Peter Ustinov plays the husband who's made a fortune by having insurance checks mailed to him at different addresses all over the continent, but whose luck is about to run out. It's a good thing that Maggie is able to bail him out!
3. (2002) A successful playwright, played by Sandra Bullock, infuriates her mother by making their difficult relationship public knowledge. She soon finds herself kidnapped by her mother's closest friends, who strive to make her understand why her mother wasn't always there for her by telling her stories of their youth. Maggie was magnificent as the oxygen-toting Carol Bennett.
4. (1985)Maggie plays Charlotte Bartlett, chaperone to the young Lucy Honeychurch, on a trip to Florence in the early 1900s. When they express displeasure about the view from their rooms, a fellow tourist and his son offer to exchange rooms with them.
5. (1969) In that uneasy time between the First and Second World Wars, Maggie plays an unorthodox teacher who is more interested in teaching her young students about 'the ways of life', than giving them a conventional education. Unfortunately her position becomes threatened because of her indiscretions with a couple of the male teachers.
6. (2001) Maggie plays Constance Trentham, one of many guests gathered together at an English country estate for a weekend of hunting in the year 1932. The murder of the host is secondary to the tribulations of both the upper-class guests and their attending servants, which are examined in detail.
7. (1984) Even though the Second World War has been over for two years, meat is still being strictly rationed. So when a contraband pig is brought out of hiding to impress some local bigwigs, it's no wonder that someone steals it. However Maggie and her hen-pecked husband, played by Michael Palin, soon find out that the pig isn't house-broken.
8. (1991) Peter Pan is all grown up with kids of his own, and no memory at all about Neverland. But Captain Hook still wants a piece of Peter, and kidnaps his children to force him to rescue them. Maggie Smith plays an ancient Wendy, the great-grandmother of Peter's children, who tries to convince him of who he used to be.
9. (1978) Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, played by Peter Ustinov, is one of a number of passengers on a steamer making its way down an African river. He's soon put to work, trying to figure out who, among the many suspects with good motive, murdered one of the other passengers - and he must do this before too many other people are killed. Maggie plays Miss Bowers, one of the passengers.
10. (1996) When three college friends reunite at the funeral of a friend who committed suicide, they vow to exact revenge on the husbands who have thrown them over for younger women. Maggie Smith plays Gunilla Garson Goldberg, the scion of New York society who helps them carry out their plan.
11. (1992) When Deloris VanCartier, a not-so-successful lounge singer, witnesses a murder ordered by her mob connected boyfriend, police hide her in a convent for her own protection. Here she immediately locks horns with the Mother Superior, played by Maggie. Her modernization of the convent's choir helps revitalize the church, but also attracts the wrong kind of attention.
12. (1976) The names may have been slightly changed, but there's no mistaking who they're supposed to be. A handful of the great detectives from the halls of fiction have been summoned to the mansion of Lionel Twain, to solve a murder that will occur on the stroke of midnight. But Twain is a brilliant criminal, and nothing is the way it appears. Maggie plays Mrs. Dora Charleson.
13. (1993) When her parents are killed, Mary must return from India to live in her uncle's castle. Even though life is cold and the household unwelcoming, she finds pleasure in restoring a neglected garden that she finds hidden away. She is also surprised to find the presence of a horrendously spoiled cousin, and she sets about restoring him with the same love and dedication that she gives to the garden. Maggie Smith plays the imposing Mrs. Medlock.
14. (1978) Maggie Smith plays a British actress (now there's a stretch) who's come to Hollywood with her husband (played by Michael Caine) because she's been nominated for an Oscar. Theirs is just one of four unrelated stories of groups of people staying at a Beverly Hills hotel.
15. (1972) Larger than life and delightfully eccentric, Maggie Smith's character descends on the funeral of her sister. She sweeps her unsuspecting nephew, a conservative bank clerk, into her adventures as she attempts to rescue an old lover.
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