Who is your Favourite Miss Marple?
Published 1 year, 8 months ago in Entertainment.apropo of one of the latest nooks being Miss Marple I wondered which of the actresses people liked best playing that role. I like Joan Hickson. I think she was between Margaret Rutherford and the current actress (who’s name escapes me) who will be seen on the ABC tonight.
7 Responses to “Who is your Favourite Miss Marple?”
Leave a Reply
Your reply will not appear on the site until it has been approved
As you might have guessed from my nook, I think there is no better Miss Marple than Margaret Rutherford. It is just a shame that she was only in four of the films. They do, however, remain timeless classics. I can watch them again and again. It’s also a bonus that they star our own Charles (Bud) Tingwell as Inspector Craddock. I think my favorite one is Murder, she said. I really adore the banter between Miss Marple and Inspector Craddock in this one. It is also great to watch Miss Marple and Mr Stringer together as they are so cute together (apparently, he was her husband in real life).
Did you know Joan Hickson starred as the house keeper, Mrs Kidder in the 1961 film, Murder She Said? Miss Marple was played by my favourite all time actress, Margaret Rutherford. The film is based on the Agatha Christie’s book The 4.50 from Paddington.
There’s a great send up spoof of this very film on You Tube, check out this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHCECDs-kNU
yes missmarple I can see that you obviously like Margaret Rutherford. as I said I do prefer Joan Hickson. and yes thank you ednaharhling I read that she was the housekeeper in Murder She Said. their is a great biography on Joan Hickson in wikipedia. I just watched the Agatha Christie on the ABC with the new actress but they changed the story, the plot and the characters and I was frustrated all the way thru it. I don’t think I’ll watch next week. I have been listening to the audio books lately and I like that because you can imagine the story as they are being read.
oh! I forgot. thank you ednadarhling I looked up youtube. it was very funny.
You’re welcome lyni. Yes, I couldn’t get into the new Miss Marple either.
Who is the voice reading the Miss Marple audiobooks? I might see if our local library has any. Cheers!
they have different people reading them, female and male. some that I’ve heard have been read by Joan Hickson. you will have to check with your library to see which particular audio books they have ednadarhling.
thanks for your word on the kelly report its true that we spend a lot off time over seas and yet dont see what we have here over the next few weeks i will report about places we visited you might be interested to know as a country we have the highest no of work holidays not taken all im trying to do is get people to spend here in this country to help our tourism after all we do have a great place no wars and fredom to move till next time lyni all so keep your eye out for the philip island wine fest/a free day for all thanks big fella tours