For all those confused, Alice Ghostley was a friend of Maggie and accepted the award on her behalf, which should have been explained by an announcer that night. Maggie wasn’t in attendance because she and husband Robert Stephens were appearing under contract in "Beaux Stratagem" at the National Theatre in London. Maggie flew to NY for one day in April to present a special Tony award to Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Lauren Bacall presented Maggie with the Oscar at the Tony ceremony.

@robertorourke2358

3 жыл бұрын

In 1963, Joan Crawford accepted Anne Bancroft's Oscar. In 1967, Anne Bancroft accepted Elizabeth Taylor's Oscar.

@brontewcat

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for explaining.

@danjones5161

2 жыл бұрын

Alice Ghostly had lots of good friends in Hollywood.

@stardaddyo9

Жыл бұрын

Mrs Kravitz shows up and saves the day.

@donnalthood3102

Жыл бұрын

@@stardaddyo9 Mrs. Kravitz? Nope! That is Esmeralda!

One of the finest Best Actress performances ever. People were surprised at the win as the picture was released very early in 1969 and many people felt it was forgotten by Oscar time. But as Shirley MacLean said at the time "they voted for talent".

Brodie is one such a complex character and Maggie portrays her flawlessly.

I wish Maggie smith was present at the oscars

@Spiderman7Bob7

7 жыл бұрын

Me too.

@dobazajr

4 жыл бұрын

She was at the Broadway I think at that time.

@535657

3 жыл бұрын

@@dobazajr It was the opening night at the Old Vic in London of her performing in the play "The Beaux' Stratagem".

@lazarelazaro52

2 жыл бұрын

She graces theatre awards galas, not film ones...

Maggie Smith should have won the Oscar for her spot on performance as Alice Ghostley that night

@jamesmajor3892

11 ай бұрын

😂

@steveb1164

5 ай бұрын

LOL

This is not Maggie Smith, She is just representing Maggie for taking the award

@rgrndu

5 жыл бұрын

DaisyMcLee You have an amazing grasp of the obvious.

@laurathompson4458

5 жыл бұрын

megacultureman or my all time fav..... Designing Women! I still Due love her in Bewitched

@RenanCMaia

5 жыл бұрын

Really??? 😂

@vintage1520

4 жыл бұрын

we aren't deaf or blind

@sann5146

4 жыл бұрын

Honestly they should've said so. In other years when someone else accepted on the winner's behalf the announcer specifically stated who it was 🤷

Is only me who thinks that Cliff Robetson is hot?

@missisfreddiemercury

8 жыл бұрын

+mmalmec not only you :-)

@Spiderman7Bob7

8 жыл бұрын

+mmalmec No it's not just you. In his day Cliff Robertson was one of the HOTTEST guys out there. It's just back in those days they did not 'make over a guy like they would a woman. Guys did not have all that sex appeal. Ha Ha Ha Things have certainly changed haven't they!

@Spiderman7Bob7

8 жыл бұрын

No it is not only you.

@JSOMERSETJSOMERSET

8 жыл бұрын

Joan Crawford certainly did she made him give a bedroom audition for autumn leaves

@Spiderman7Bob7

8 жыл бұрын

Ya, he was the hottest of the lot, but back then they didn't make as much out of a handsome man like they do today.

It was a brilliant performance and so many memorable lines from one of the greatest films ever made.

A performance never to be forgotten

@renegaderunner332

Жыл бұрын

INDEED!

Love Maggie Smith in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie! “Chrysanthemums such serviceable flowers”! She’s amazing!

Maggie Smith had great acting on The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

This movie is when I first fell in love with Maggie Smith. The performance is so vibrant, so devious, so touching, so warm, so cunning. So everything. That was the complexity of Miss Jean Brodie. Her slide show scene is unforgettable. It's surprising to see how many posts mention Genevieve Bujold as the preferred winner. I loved her Anne Boleyn, but at the time she was not favored. Jane Fonda and Liza Minnelli both were highly acclaimed for their respective films. But Maggie's reception was virtually unanimous. She earned the honor.

@loveanimals6981

5 жыл бұрын

Bujold won the Golden Globe for Anne, so I would say she was far from being the darkhorse (that most likely would have been Simmons). I think she for sure would have been a strong contender here.

@independentfilmchannel1476

3 жыл бұрын

Jane Fonda had won the New York Film Critics Award for her superb work in They Shoot Horses so many observers thought she would win. (Nobody said anything about Ms Bujold being a "dark horse.") Jean Simmons' striking performance in The Happy Ending is not as well remembered as the other four but is one of her best.

The nominees look so EXCITED OMG

@steveprice2718

4 жыл бұрын

Liza's mother Judy Garland had passed not long before this. Jane Fonda was pissed at the world Genevieve was the only one who held an expression.

@johnfd0210

3 жыл бұрын

@@steveprice2718 I laughed at your Jane Fonda comment, although it is true. I think she has mellowed (a little) over the years. Also, have to say she was excellent in "Horses".

@graphiquejack

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnfd0210 yes, and Genevieve was magnificent as Anne Boleyn

For the record, this is my ex neighbor Alice Ghostley....A magnificent comedic actress..RIP

@stumack9755

4 жыл бұрын

did Ezmerelda do any witchcraft on u?

@FelixLRodriguez

4 жыл бұрын

What are the odds we would both see and notice this withing 48 hours of each other? I knew that was Alice Ghostley (a great actress, herself) just from the face and the voice. I would have killed to live next to her. Bernice on "Designing Women" is one of the best characters of all time. Oh! As others have mentioned, Cliff was HOT, too.

@steveprice2718

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, she was a hoot, for sure!

Oh come on Esmeralda!! You could have at least started your speech with _It is with great honour I kindly accept this award on behalf of the talented Maggie Smith..._

@ddivincenzo1194

2 жыл бұрын

Esmeralda goofed again.

@djmotise

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. It is one of Oscar's dumbest moments. And she got the director wrong.

God I thought it was her and wondered why does she look so different now 😂

@lablyaspiras6966

2 жыл бұрын

me too hahaha if i hadn't read comments, i thought it was her 😂

This is Alice Ghostley. She played Esmiralda in 'Bewitched'

Maggie earned that Oscar. She was outstanding in the film!!!!

That telephone scene from the Sterile Cuckoo was just amazing. One of the best bits of acting I've seen.

@independentfilmchannel1476

3 жыл бұрын

You're right. And I'm not even a Liza fan ordinarily.

Wow Geneviève Bujold was so stunning back then omg.

@good_teanice_house6789

4 жыл бұрын

Squrtile101 She was the original Captain Janeway

One of the greatest winners ever and one of the best performances ever!!!!!

Who would have thought that this same person would still be a cinema star over 4 decades later with the success of the Harry Potter novels made into movies. Now that is one hell of a resume for anyone!!!

Loved her in California Suite ,too . She won Best Supporting Actress .Her and Michael Caine's performances made that film worth watching

Love Alice Ghostley AND Maggie Smith. What could be bad?

She was OUTSTANDING in that film!

One of the greatest actresses in the world. She can do just about anything and be wonderful. THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE made Maggie Smith more widely known to film audiences, although she had already stolen THE VIPs from Elizabeth Taylor a few years previously, and been a great Desdemona to Olivier's Othello. To theater audiences, she was already known and respected for well over a decade. Her performance in JEAN BRODIE is absolutely stunning, a tour-de-force. That year, the only performance that approched hers was Jean Simmons' in THE HAPPY ENDING. I remember being disappointed for Simmons, but was awed by Smith when I finally saw her film.

@bman560

7 жыл бұрын

I agree . In the VIP's, she steals the movie. The last scene with her and Burton is priceless. it makes watching the previous 2.5 at times tedious hours worthwhile.

@mmjhcb

5 жыл бұрын

SHE is an actress. She shows how it's done. No pretense, no calling attention to HOW she's doing it, just plain doing it. Every time. She is one of the greats.

@rgrndu

5 жыл бұрын

Ricardo Bigi She was great in Evil Under the Sun.

@graphiquejack

3 жыл бұрын

Genevieve Bujold was fantastic as Anne Boleyn, but I think the film wasn't critically acclaimed at the time. She carries the film, honestly, and out-acts Richard Burton.

@michaelverbakel7632

2 жыл бұрын

If you want to know how great an actress Maggie Smith is watch her performance in the 1987 film ' The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne'. It is superior to both of her Oscar winning performances yet she wasn't even nominated. She should easily have won a 3rd Oscar for that role. It is a greater performance than any of the five women nominated that year and especially better than Cher's Oscar winning role in Moonstruck.

This was the first year that I ever watched The Academy Awards when I was 12 and I remember that Maggie Smith was not present but I couldn't remember who accepted it for her. Alice Ghostley was an odd choice to accept the award for her. I've always said that this was one if the hardest years to pick the Best Actress Award because all of the women that year were exceptional and all 5 of them are my favorites. Maggie Smith was brilliant in the role of Jean Brodie. Her scene with Pamela Franklin near the end of the movie (where she accuses Pamela of being an assassin ) is a master class in film acting. An unforgettable performance. And so I think Maggie was a fine choice for Best Actress.

@jaydefelice9887

4 жыл бұрын

Smith and Ghostley had been friends since 1956 when they appeared on broadway together. I'm pretty sure Smith requested Ghostley to accept of her behalf.

@steveb1164

11 ай бұрын

She did. Ghostley wouldn't have been allowed to accept it otherwise.@@jaydefelice9887

One of the greatest performances ever given

Thanks for this!

she is sooo funny. I love Alice Ghostley...she appears a lot in the Julie Andrews HOur....her comedic timing is epic.

I hope some day someone will post footage of Alice Ghostley winning her 1965 Tony Award for "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window". What a great and humble actress. Thank goodness she landed the role of Esmeralda on "Bewitched" or the memories of her and all her performances might have been lost forever like so many others who were just as talented but not fortunate enough to have been bestowed the same kind of exposure.

My favorite best actress winning performance, and lovely to see her great friend Alice Ghostley accept on Maggie's behalf. Alice misspoke, however; the director of the film for which Maggie won was Ronald Neame. Credit where it is due, you know.

The director of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was Ronald Neame who also directed 1972s The Poseidon Adventure. AG mentioned Robert Fryer? as the director

A beautiful film. Alice Ghostly (colleague and friend of Maggie Smith) accepted for Maggie Smith. I wish Celia Johnson had been nominated as the headmistress. I felt she was missing from Oscar's winning circle and certainly would have been worthy against the other nominees in the supporting category.

@arnoldamaral7406

3 жыл бұрын

To the sure in time some Advantage will come my way. 🇷🇺🍷💙😍 Arnold Bourbon Amaral

@DavidJohnson-yq4nz

Жыл бұрын

Celia joysas also wonderful

@Rozsaphile

Жыл бұрын

Indeed! Also Pamela Franklin, in a supporting role that has almost the weight of the lead. Smith is in the first shot, but Franklin is in the last.

@paulamiles9559

Жыл бұрын

@@Rozsaphile Pamela Franklin surely deserved Best Supporting Actress.

Love Maggie Smith. Loved her in ' on the twentieth century '.

The director was "Ronald Neame", otherwise this would have been a perfect acceptance speech by Alice Ghostly [who accepted Maggie Smith's Oscar with dignity]. This was a very great list of Best Actress Contenders -- but Maggie Smith's win was richly deserved.

Alice Ghostly was a great character actress. She looked beautiful accepting for Maggie.

Bernice accepts an Oscar....never thought I'd see that

@arnoldamaral7406

3 жыл бұрын

Alice Ghostley is a good actress you need to keep up 🇷🇺🍷💙 Mon Ami. Arnold Bourbon Amaral

In addition to giving one of the best performances ever filmed, it's a tribute to Smith's Oscar that she won out over the established Hollywood families of Jane Fonda and Liza Minnelli's. And, Fonda and Minnelli were damn good in their roles this year. Sometimes, the system works.

Maggie Smith & Alice Ghostly became friends when they worked together in "New Faces of 1956". Miss Smith asked Alice Ghostly to accept on her behalf. I felt Ms. Ghostly was quite dignified and most likely nervous as well giving her speech, since she erred to mention Ronald Neame as the director. Robert Fryer co-produced the film with James Cresson. Richard Zanuck was the head of 20th Century Fox. Maggie Smith deserved her Oscar for one of the greatest performances ever on film!

and thank you, Muriel Spark!

Bradley Cooper looks like Cliff Robertson

@polakzpolaka

3 жыл бұрын

Or Roberts like Cooper

Alice ghostly accepting for Maggie smith, awesome!!

Beautifully said!!!!!!!

Thank you very much. So I heard, my grandmother is also a fan! :">

She is absoulutely one of the best!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAGGIE SMITH (12/28/34)!🎂

Maggie Smith tão simpática,formosa, humilde.

and Jean Simmons (one of the best actress nominees) was sitting behind jane fonda (you can see during the best actress names when the camera shows fonda) however cliff r. states the two who were not believed to be in attendace (simmons and smith) first on the list of the 5 noms; jean simmons must have arrived late, so not expecting her to be present during the name/nom announcement, she was included with smith in the first two names, and then the noms there were announced(minelli,bujold&fonda)

@Rozsaphile

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I think so. And husband Richard Brooks beside her?

I had to watch this a couple times to realize what’s going on. I was lost looking at Cliff Robinson. Damn he’s fine.

Man, Cliff was freaking hot!

@curtischildress9580

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. HAF!!!

A shame she wasn’t present. She’s one of the best actresses of all time

Maggie Smith and Alice Ghostley appeared on Broadway together in "The New Faces of Broadway" in 1956. They remained friends until Ghostley's death. Paul Lynde was in that group as well.

It was nice to see Mr. Minnelli attending with his daughter.

Imagine being Maggie and just not even bothering to show up 😂

@robertorourke2358

3 жыл бұрын

Katharine Hepburn missed all four of her Oscars.

@independentfilmchannel1476

3 жыл бұрын

+crazzi-j north. I believe she was appearing in a play that night. Also, nominees often missed the ceremony in those days probably because travel was more difficult.

@robertorourke2358

3 жыл бұрын

She got to send Alice Ghostly to pick up her Oscar, but that changed after Marlon Brando sent Sacheen Littlefeather. Now, it's "The Academy congratulates Sir Anthony and accepts the award on his behalf."

Best win in the category. Period.

And the Oscar goes to...Bernice! Lol I love this quirky moment!

gosh maggie should attend more often tho accept her award simply because she gives the very best speeches!

Tough year, all amazing films.

I saw the thumbnail and I thought I never knew Maggie Smith looked so much like Alice Ghostley. Lol

Liza Minnelli is so cute sitting next to her father, Vincente and he is holding her hand!

wow she really just gave all the credit to the men around maggie smith then left. ok....

@torontomame

4 жыл бұрын

If you'd watched the entire clip you would have heard her comment on Maggie's "magnificent performance". Or would have mentioning that part weakened your implication that Ms Ghostley was being sexist?

@clintonwthompson

4 жыл бұрын

@@torontomame i watched it all miss thing. don't try it. it's my opinion that if i saw someone give credit to everyone else, all men, before getting around to me, id be annoyed. it is sexist. it was fucking hollywood, mame! sexism was also super internalized in 1970... it is what it is. don't get mad at me for calling it out. also don't reply, cuz i don't give a fuck.

@ahbowakawapoussepousse2712

4 жыл бұрын

@@clintonwthompson I agree! She barely even spoke of Maggie when the award was a tribute to her.

@thephoenixxy

3 жыл бұрын

I honestly thought, "Where's she going with this?"

@al.santos6264

3 жыл бұрын

She practically said that with those men involved any actress would have won an Oscar.

Love Maggie Smith

Maggie Smith is also in the Harry Potter movies as well as Sister Act , she was the Mother Superior she's one of my faves we're both from Scotland, and I love this movie

'...is Maggie Smith, in The Prime of Miss Jodie Brodie!' hahahahh well done mate

Wonderful

Alice Ghostley was wonderful too!

I love Alice!

How could you choose just one !?

This year was a difficult one for just the right actress to receive the award…all were good performances, but several of them were odd, disturbing caricatures rather than genuinely interesting roles for women (Smith, Fonda, Minnelli). Simmons was spot on and wonderful. Bujold was magnificent, but had made an enemy of Elizabeth Taylor, who (so it was rumored at the time) waged a major undercover campaign against her. Bujold was already internationally known and was named Golden Globe winner for ANNE(1969) and Best Actress in Canada (for ISABEL). Bujold is beautiful here and today one of the French speaking world's best actresses. Jean Simmons or Genevieve Bujold would have been better choices for that particular year, a mon avis (IMO). In the Hollywood columns of the day (1970) critics kept reminding Academy Members not to forget about Maggie Smith…it worked.

@gatewayski1

9 жыл бұрын

The Critics were quite wise back then. I know one very wise Critic back then, Clyde Gilmour, who felt Dame Celia Johnson would win Best Supporting Actress (but she was not even nominated).

@TheChannelTV-bt8em

8 жыл бұрын

+Philip Boleyn "odd, disturbing caricatures"? You picked the three most acclaimed of the five to describe that way. Taking nothing away from Simmons or Bujold, both excellent in their respective roles, but Smith earned that award rather decisively.

@sedekiman824

Жыл бұрын

Well, isn't that what Jean Brody was, a caricature? And played sublimely by Maggie Smith. "She thinks to intimidate me with quarter hours!"

This is Alice Ghostly, people, she is standing in for Maggie

the face of cliff robertson astonishingly looks like david beckham

@seanmanucha3407

4 жыл бұрын

I was thinking bradley cooper lol

Very well deserved.

@TheChannelTV-bt8em

8 жыл бұрын

+E. CP. I think I agree but wow, what fierce competition.

At first i thought he was bradley cooper. I really did take a closer. They look almost the same.

@hgoodin1013

4 жыл бұрын

same here, ha!

💜💜💜

Best actress of all time

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

They starred on Broadway in New Faces of 1956. That's Alice's husband, Felice Orlandi, who walks halfway up the aisle with her. Hope you post John & Juliet Mills speeches from the next year.

Alice Ghostley and Maggie Smith had been friends since 1956 when they appeared on Broadway together.

Great actress

Best actress NO SHOWS: Wow 4 years in a row !!!!

0:18 Vincente next to Liza...so sweet! :)

@fatima1009

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, she was there with her dad, and had just lost her mom.

@holliedevine7565

4 жыл бұрын

It’s so sweet, when she won her Oscar in1972 and brought her dad again and the way he reacted was filled with pride for Liza

@ahbowakawapoussepousse2712

4 жыл бұрын

There was a tribute for Judy that Oscars. It would have been sad for both of them.

Geez... it says right there in the description, "Presented by Cliff Robertson and accepted by Alice Ghostley." Dame Maggie WON, and Alice ACCEPTED for her! Where's the confusion??

Oh, Esmeralda.

Someone from Bewitched accepting an Oscar!!!

Thank you. Can you make a video about my favourite British actress (and biological female!) to win two Oscars ... Glenda Jackson. For some reason her name seems to be forgotten in any list about Oscar wins. More please.

Great line-up. My personal fave was Liza in Sterile Cuckoo.

Amen to that...

Just because I watch one video about the making of a movie from 1960's does not mean I want to see every single thing about every single old-time actor or actress.

That's funny, Alice Ghostley accepted the Oscar for Maggie Smith

Nice acceptance speech by Alice Ghostley! Comedienne who was in Bewiched, Designing Women and others.

She got the director completely wrong, it was Ronald Neame. He also directed The Poseidon Adventure and many other great movies.

She was in London on stage :)

@broadjumper1 Jean's performance was great then. And it only gets better with age. See the film! Not only was Jean great but Shirley Jones & Tina Louise and Nanette Fabray & Teresa Wright also gave Oscar calibur performances in The Happy Ending.

0:40 Did he just say: "Maggie Smith in The Prime of Miss JODY Brodie"?!

And the Oscar goes to Professor Minerva McGonagall for the Prime of Miss jean Brodie

It is so rare Maggie smith goes to those events.

she looked so cute.

I saw all these performances and feel Maggie was the best with Liza a close second!

Maggie Smith is a wonderful actress and I am glad she won an Oscar. I only wish that Genevieve Bujold had gone on to win one herself. Her performances in Obsession and Coma should have given her the Academy she so richly deserves.

@limadelta9429

4 жыл бұрын

BujoldComa78 correct