The Silver Screen Oasis

Just heard Shirley Maclaine is joining the cast of Downton Abbey. I think she's playing Maggie Smith's daugher-in laws mother.

In another post I'll give details about new cast member's of Upstairs Downstairs

I read about Shirley MacLaine this morning. At first I was dismayed, she is very brash...but the more I think about it, as Cora's mother, she and Dame Maggie will go toe-to-toe, and it will be wonderful. Nouveau Riche American, Titled Gentry Brit. I am laughing even now!

Oh. no. "Very brash" is putting it mildly, Nancy. Somehow I wonder if we are about to see Shirley MacLaine do her version of The Unsinkable Molly Brown while visiting Downton Abbey.

Isn't this called "jumping the shark"?

Maybe there will be hair pulling and insulting one's heritage. Then Carson comes in and picks them both up and says "Excuse me Sir while I clean up a bit."

movieman1957 wrote:Maybe there will be hair pulling and insulting one's heritage. Then Carson comes in and picks them both up and says "Excuse me Sir while I clean up a bit."

I'll bet Shirley 'out snobs' Dame Maggie. I can't wait to see how my beloved Hugh Bonneville reacts to her.....snicker.....

I wonder if Shirley MacLaine and Maggie Smith will have any scenes together. At the end of season 2, Lady Mary was planning to travel to New York to visit her maternal grandmother, which is the role that everyone assumes MacLaine will be playing. I can't imagine Violet traveling to New York...

Sandy K

SPOILER!!!!!

Since Matthew proposed to Mary, the trip would be off, they discussed 'weathering' that storm together.