Murder at the Gallop
1963
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Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford, DBE (11 May 1892 – 22 May 1972) was an English actress of stage, film and television. She came to national attention following World War II in the film adaptations of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.
Margaret Rutherford. Actress: The V.I.P.s. Rare is the reference to Margaret Rutherford that doesn't characterize her as either jut-chinned, eccentric, or both.
Margaret Rutherford. Actress: The V.I.P.s. Rare is the reference to Margaret Rutherford that doesn't characterize her as either jut-chinned, eccentric, or both.
For much of the 60’s she become synonymous with Miss Jane Marple, making four Marple based films with a comedy bent that must have won Christie’s approval, as in 1962 Agatha Christie dedicated her novel The Mirror Crack’d: “To Margaret Rutherford in admiration.”
May 4, 2016 · As the actor Robert Morley once said, Margaret Rutherford was “everyone’s Maiden Aunt—a woman of enormous integrity who acted naturally…and was always frightfully funny.” Yet behind all this talent to amuse was a terrible secret worthy of a Miss Marple mystery—a story of madness, suicide and murder that haunted the great actress ...
Aug 5, 2024 · Dame Margaret Rutherford (born May 11, 1892, London, Eng.—died May 22, 1972, Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire) was an actress who was popular on the British stage and screen from the 1930s in roles as a lovable English eccentric.
Between 1961 and 1964 Margaret Rutherford starred in four classic Miss Marple films, three of which were based on Agatha Christie stories.Murder She Said (19...
Rutherford, Margaret (1892–1972) English actress who rose to stardom in middle age and created an ensemble of eccentrics for film and stage, including Agatha Christie 's Miss Marple. Born Margaret Taylor Rutherford on May 11, 1892, at 15 Dornton Road, Balham, England; died on May 22, 1972, at Chalfont St. Peter, England; daughter of William ...
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 Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.
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. She was 80...
