RIP Geraldine McEwan

bright.ton42 — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 01:36:09 GMT

Best known as Miss Marple - she gave me and millions of others so much pleasure.

1932 - 2015

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/jan/31/geraldine-mcewan

Geraldine McEwan, who has died aged 82, could purr like a kitten, snap like a viper and, like Shakespeare’s Bottom, roar you as gently as any sucking dove. She was a brilliant, distinctive and decisive performer whose career incorporated high comedy on the West End stage, Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon, Laurence Olivier’s National Theatre, and a cult television following in EF Benson’s Mapp and Lucia (1985-86).

She was also notable on television as a controversial Miss Marple in a series of edgy, incongruously outspoken Agatha Christie adaptations (2004-09). Inheriting a role that had already been inhabited at least three times “definitively” – by Margaret Rutherford, Angela Lansbury and Joan Hickson – she made of the deceptively cosy detective a character both steely and skittish, with a hint of lust about her, too.

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creative*crisis — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 02:17:07 GMT

A good age.

I have all her Miss Marple movies and still enjoy them very much.

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