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Murder Ahoy: Directed by George Pollock. With Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, William Mervyn. After Miss Jane Marple is made a trustee of a merchant marine training vessel, a fellow trustee is poisoned, and ship's officers are later murdered after she comes on board.
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A tribute to Margaret Rutherford and her portrayal of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple.
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Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple. Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford, DBE (11 May 1892 – 22 May 1972) was an English character actress, who first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.
Miss Marple is a fictional character in numerous crime novels and short stories by Agatha Christie. Jane Marple lives in the village of St. Mary Mead and acts as an amateur consulting detective. Often characterized as an elderly spinster, she is one of Christie's best-known characters. And yet she had to wait thirty-one years after her first appearance in print in 1930 to appear on the big ...
Davis married Margaret Rutherford in 1945 after a 15-year courtship. She was 53 and he was 46 at the time. Reportedly, his mother was the main reason for the long engagement because she was adamantly opposed to having Margaret Rutherford for a daughter-in-law, referring to her when talking to her son as "that older actress woman you have been seeing over the years."
Murder She said is a 1961 comedy/murder mystery film directed by George Pollock, based on the 1957 novel 4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie.The production stars Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple, along with Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, James Robertson Justice, and Stringer Davis (Rutherford's husband).
May 23, 1972 · LONDON, May 22 — Dame Margaret Rutherford, the actress whose comedy roles delighted audiences for more than 40 years, died today at her (home in Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire.
