For the past seven weeks, according to Variety, The V.I.P.s has been among the top ten moneymaking movies now playing in the U.S. It's not much of a movie, and the reason people were going into the theaters at all was to see Elizabeth Taylor. When they came out, likely as not, they were asking: "Who is Maggie Smith?"
Maggie Smith plays a secretary to one of the V.I.P.s. Since the movie is one of those Farmers Hotel assemblages of separate stories, Maggie and Elizabeth never appear together, which is too bad. For when Maggie Smith is on the screen,...
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