As a member of the Royal National Theatre, acting along sideġ960s and 70s with memorable roles including The Dance of Death, Loveįor Love, A Flea in Her Ear, Chez Nous, Home and Beauty, The Browning Public Eye, and most recently, The Chairs, earning her a Tony With productions of The School for Scandal, The Private Ear and the Miss McEwan originated the female lead role in In Twelfth Night which also toured Moscow and Leningrad. Pericles and played opposite Dorothy Tutin In Hamlet, The Princess of France in Love's Labour's Lost, Marina in She had leading roles as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing with

Memorial Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon and joined the Royal During the 1950s she acted with the Shakespeare By the age ofġ8 she was starring in London's West End in several long-running A delightful series and a testament to a great talent who should never be forgotten.Geraldine McEwan was born in Old Windsor, England and made her theatreĭebut at the age of 14 at the Theatre Royal in Windsor. She plays well off a diversity of people, including the gloriously crusty hypochondriac patriarch James Robertson Justice, the mischievous grandson Ronnie Raymond, the mildly exasperated police inspector Charles Tingwell or the gentle compatriot Stringer Davis. Rutherford is simply wonderful with her unforgettable expressions. I much prefer these films as opposed to the more traditional renderings from BBC/PBS as Miss Marple is depicted here as such a vital and uniquely active free spirit. In this case, screenwriters wisely combined a young character with Miss Marple so she remains front and center in the action. Christie's Marple was really a sedate, seemingly dithery woman who basically spends most of the books sitting on her backside knitting - in fact, in some of the novels Marple actually gets very little time and is merely on-hand to piece together the clues provided by others and provide the name of the culprit. The story sticks relatively close to the events in the novel 4:50 from Paddington, with one major exception that may surprise fans of this series who have not read the novels. The first in a series of four Miss Marple films featuring the incomparable Margaret Rutherford as the elderly spinster with excellent detective abilities from the popular Agatha Christie novels.

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