Thread by @BCDreyer

Well, happy birthday to her!

And as one does like to note from time to time, her performance in The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne is one of the greatest ever committed to film.

(You might recognize the other actress.)

It was a treat to catch her in that Albee footnote The Lady from Dubuque, and I'll be danged if she didn't (almost) make the thing work.

And I took perverse collector's pride in its being for a long time her final stage performance. (I missed A German Life by weeks, dammit.)

(Correction: by days, dammit.)

I particularly remember reading of her delivery of the line "This haddock is disgusting" in that famous revival of Hay Fever and how it became an event and then a burden.

But I'd still like to hear it.

Lynn Redgrave's recounting of that revival in Shakespeare for My Father (including the "On a clear day" contretemps and her splendid imitations of Edith and Noël) had me howling.

I don't recall if she dared imitate Maggie. (Though her imitation of Vanessa was...wow.)