Margaret Rutherford

[smiffy]

If you say that then you would nt want to read the biogs of many stars.For example both Terry-Thomas and JRJ both ended up in straightened and rather pathetic situations,but that does not detract fromtheir lives or works.

I quite agree Orpheum , and your two examples will be added to my " To read list " thanks

[wellendcanons]

Margaret Rutherford was simply wonderful. She had a charisma for me. She could dominate any scene on the screen without even trying.



I would be very interested to read her biography. I have read things about her life in magazines and newspapers. I believe she and husband Stringer Davis adopted many children. Whatever tragedies she has had to live with she was by all accounts a very warm and generous person.



A truly remarkable lady.



Wellendcanons.

[ican]

A friend of mine is sure the BBC or C4 produced a documentary about Maragaret Rutherford, he dates it as late 80s or early 90s. I can't find any reference online, the only thing I could come up with was the Timothy Spall Without Walls drama and its not that. Anyone remember it?

[Toscana]

I'm two thirds through reading the Andy Merriman biography; Margaret Rutherford Dreadnought with Good Manner. It does not mention any TV documentary in name or as any point of reference. Dawn Langley Simmons did write a biography called Margaret Rutherford. A Blithe Spirit in 1983.

[Marky B]

I know the lovely Dame Margaret Rutherford was a cousin of Anthony Benn,but was she related to Sir John Mills?
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Marky B

[Gerald Lovell]

There no mention of that in Andy Merriman's biography of Dame Margaret, Marky.

[Tigon Man]

Didn't they use the Mills home in Denham as Miss Marple's St.Mary Mead home in Dame Maggie's Miss Marple movies? I think it was in the Merriman biog.

[Marky B]

It was used in Murder She Said.
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MArky B

[Richard_in_wales]

Does anyone know where she lived in the 50's?

[susanduic]

I'm having (an even more than usual) "senior" day but for the life of me I can't bring to mind who "JRJ " is.........please be gently anyone answering!

[Steve Crook]

I'm having (an even more than usual) "senior" day but for the life of me I can't bring to mind who "JRJ " is.........please be gently anyone answering!

James Robertson Justice

Steve

[susanduic]

Ah!

[flynn]

i never tire of watching Margaret Rutherford.especially in the Miss Marple Films.

[Marky B]

i never tire of watching Margaret Rutherford.especially in the Miss Marple Films.

She was a gem! Dame Margaret and the great Alistair Sim were fabulolus!
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Marky B

[billy farmer]

A TV Times article about Margaret Rutherford from the June 14th - 20th 1964 issue of TV Times.