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“She always looks so extreme,” a fellow teacher observes of Maggie Smith’s trademark rigidity in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” (1969), putting her finger on the straight-backed, nose-high hauteur audiences enjoyed for more than half a century. A shrill and tragically short-sighted instructor at a school full of impressionable-aged girls, Jean Brodie proved to […]