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    Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play. 1979 Bedroom Farce. Joan Bogle Hickson, OBE (5 August 1906 – 17 October 1998) was an English actress of theatre, film and television. She was known for her role as Agatha Christie 's Miss Marple in the television series Miss Marple. She also narrated a number of Miss Marple ...

  2. Feb 28, 2024 · This documentary video is about how Joan Hickson became the ultimate Miss Marple. From her humble beginnings as a character actress in Westend comedies – to ...

    • 26 min
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    • Marina Via
  3. Jun 14, 2021 · The casting of Joan Hickson drew on an established heritage of film and television appearances, making the actress a known quantity, whose low-key persona conflated the ordinary with the familiar. For Hickson, Miss Marple was a dramatic contrast to her previous work, and not merely because it elevated her from character actor to star.

  4. May 18, 1987 · Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder: Directed by John Davies. With Joan Hickson, Geraldine Alexander, John Moulder-Brown, Frederick Treves. When a young bride moves into a country manor, long repressed childhood memories of witnessing a murder come to the surface.

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    • Crime, Drama, Mystery
    • John Davies
    • 1987-05-18
  5. Miss Marple: The Body in the Library: With Joan Hickson, Gwen Watford, Moray Watson, Valentine Dyall. Amateur detective Miss Jane Marple investigates the murder of a young woman whose body is found in the library at Gossington Hall, home of Colonel and Mrs. Arthur Bantry.

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    • 1984-12-25
    • Crime, Drama, Mystery
    • 52
  6. THE OLDEST actress ever to take the lead in a major television series, Joan Hickson was a sprightly 78 when she was chosen to play the role for which she will be best remembered, Agatha Christie’s spinster detective Miss Marple. It was the first of 12 murder mysteries in a television series that was to run for eight years, ending only when ...

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  8. Mar 12, 2024 · All 12 original Miss Marple Christie novels were dramatised. 1. The Body in the Library (1984) 2. The Moving Finger (1985) 3. A Murder Is Announced (1985) 4....

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