Glenda Jackson: 1936-2023, always “A Touch of Class”

Two-time Oscar winner, former member of Parliament, grande dame of the stage, the small screen and the big one, Glenda Jackson was one of a kind.

She lived 87 years, most of them bathed in glory.

Tough, flinty, a British Hepburn only less patrician with more middle class roots, adept at dramas, romances and boundary-pushing cinema of the daring ’70s — “Women in Love” — and loopy laughers like “A Touch of Class.”

She also made a helluva funny sparring partner for Walter Matthau in two pretty funny films of the ’80s, “Hopscotch” and “House Calls.”

And she still has one more movie “in the can,” as they say. Well done.

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