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It's difficult to imagine Downton Abbey without the Dowager Countess. It's equally difficult to imagine the world of British entertainment without Dame Maggie Smith, the iconic star of stage and screen who passed away earlier this year and who brought the character to such vivid and
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On September 27, 2024, Dame Maggie Smith’s two sons shared the news that their mother had passed away at the age of 89. “She passed away peacefully in hospital early this morning, Friday 27th September. An intensely private person, she was with friends and family at the end,” her
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Dame Maggie Smith, titan of stage and screen, has left us. The Oscar-winning actress, who starred in everything from A Room with a View to Downton Abbey, passed away in London at the age of 89. The news was announced this morning by her two sons Toby Stephens and Chris
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Michael Gambon, born into a working-class family in Cabra, a suburb of Dublin, did not seem destined for an acting career. He left school at 15 to become an apprentice with an engineering company. His first contact with the theater was when his father, a communist sympathizer, told him to
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Actor Julian Sands’ death was confirmed at the end of June, five months after he disappeared during bad weather in the Baldy Bowl area of the San Gabriel Mountains, CA, in January 2023. Passionate about mountaineering, he was fully aware of the dangers and exhilaration of a solo ascent. Asked
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Now that Downton Abbey: A New Era has been in theaters for a month and reached streaming, most fans know that the film's ending is, well, rather final. Even though the series sets up the possibility of other stories, the "New Era" of the title also
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Downton Abbey has made a habit of defying expectations. The series was not supposed to be a big hit for Masterpiece; edited down to four episodes from seven and exiled to the doldrums of January. The first film, distributed by indie studio Focus Features, was viewed as a niche offering
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Though it's been the 1920s since Season 3 of Downton Abbey, the upcoming sequel film Downton Abbey: A New Era leans heavily into the decade in a way the previous installments of the franchise did not. And that's not a historically inaccurate decision. Like many eras
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Even though Downton Abbey: A New Era has moved from mid-March to mid-May, fans are still super excited for a return to the House of Grantham. The fact that a sequel happened this fast in itself was miraculous enough; it seemed almost impossible that more Downton Abbey would arrive in
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After keeping it theaters only this weekend, Downton Abbey has finally bestowed the new trailer for the feature film sequel, Downton Abbey: A New Era, upon the masses waiting at home. With zero plot synopsis revealed ahead of time, and little to go on other than the entire cast returning,
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Once again, it is time to return to Downton Abbey, the storied house in Yorkshire that belongs to the Crawley family, the seat of the Grantham Estate. Fans have known Downton Abbey 2 was almost certainly in the works since the first one blew away projections and became a box
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Ever since its publication in 1911, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) has never been out of print. The popular novel has inspired multiple feature film and television adaptations, including the most recent 2020 version, a lavish retelling with an all-star cast that includes Colin Firth, Julie Walters,