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Post by Mrs Vindecco on Sept 16, 2012 18:20:18 GMT
At my Mum's recommendation I have just bought the official biography of one of my absolute favourite actresses, Margaret Rutherford. So I think I shall be starting that tonight. ;D When I grow old, I want to be like one of characters, plus she wasd the distant cousin of one my favourite politicians but ssssshhhhh we'll not discuss that here. Here's a youtube tribute I made donkeys ago:    |
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Post by woofy on Sept 16, 2012 18:27:40 GMT
The video you posted is blocked in the USA.
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Post by Mrs Vindecco on Sept 16, 2012 18:29:40 GMT
 I think I have been getting a few blocks of late, after sitting with a clean account for years.
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Post by Mrs Vindecco on Oct 4, 2012 10:27:40 GMT
I have just started reading this biography and three chapters in, I can't believe how sad Margaret's early life was. Her mother committed suicide when she was three and her father, who had murdered her Grandfather ten years before she was born, spent most of his life mental institutions. She spent most of her life worried these scandals would become public and suffered from depression and was bipolar herself. I always found her so likable and funny, I know there's more to people, but with people i have liked for years, I just wish they were as happy as they appeared on screen.
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Post by woofy on Oct 4, 2012 16:04:15 GMT
I have just started reading this biography and three chapters in, I can't believe how sad Margaret's early life was. Her mother committed suicide when she was three and her father, who had murdered her Grandfather ten years before she was born, spent most of his life mental institutions. She spent most of her life worried these scandals would become public and suffered from depression and was bipolar herself. I always found her so likable and funny, I know there's more to people, but with people i have liked for years, I just wish they were as happy as they appeared on screen. That's very sad. I know her only through her wonderful screen appearances. I guess it's a mark of her acting ability that none of that tragic history made itself felt in her performances. On a different topic.... I find it ironic that Joan Hickson played a minor part in 1961's Murder She Said. Hickson went on to play the role of Miss Marple on television some years later (and was the very best of the Marple portrayers, imho). |
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Post by Mrs Vindecco on Oct 5, 2012 21:39:23 GMT
Rutherford was also the first actress to play Mrs Danvers, in stage adaption a few months before the Hitchcock film. She received good notices for the performance, but I can't imagine how she would have done it.
Yes I agree Woofy. Joan Hickson, I believe, was most faithful to the Christie character. I never liked it as a child, it was something my Granny used to watch and I remember being quite frightened of the credits with bodies in bushes etc. It's only recently when I've seen repeats that I realise how well done it was and how authentic it tried to be. I like Rutherford's Marple as well, but that was for comedy and as she was friends with Agatha Christie, I'm sure the author wasn't too upset.
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Post by woofy on Oct 5, 2012 23:49:41 GMT
Rutherford was also the first actress to play Mrs Danvers, in stage adaption a few months before the Hitchcock film. She received good notices for the performance, but I can't imagine how she would have done it. Yes I agree Woofy. Joan Hickson, I believe, was most faithful to the Christie character. I never liked it as a child, it was something my Granny used to watch and I remember being quite frightened of the credits with bodies in bushes etc. It's only recently when I've seen repeats that I realise how well done it was and how authentic it tried to be. I like Rutherford's Marple as well, but that was for comedy and as she was friends with Agatha Christie, I'm sure the author wasn't too upset. Maggie as Mrs. Danvers? I can't imagine anyone other than Dame Judith Anderson in the role. There are sort of subdued lesbian underpinnings to the role and Anderson played it perfectly. (Anna Massey was also creditable in the 1979 BBC version.) I guess I shouldn't prejudge. A lot of comic actors turn wonderful dramatic turns when given the opportunity. I agree about Hickson. She was just the right age and body type to play Miss Marple. Ditto for David Suchet as Poirot. (To give you an idea of how anally retentive I am, when Agatha Christie's turn came up on my reading list, I had to read each and every novel in the order in which they were published (plays and short stories as well. Same goes for Chandler, Hammett, et al. [Is it any wonder I could never stay married!?])  |
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I think I have been getting a few blocks of late, after sitting with a clean account for years.
