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The '''Abbey Church of St Mary the Virgin''' at [[Sherborne]] in the [[England|English]] county of [[Dorset]], is usually called '''Sherborne Abbey'''. It has been an [[Anglo-Saxons|Saxon]] [[cathedral]] ([[705]]-[[1075]]) and a [[Benedictine]] abbey ([[998]] - [[1539]]) and is now a [[parish church]]. |
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| name = Dame Margaret Rutherford |
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| birthdate = {{birth date|1892|5|11}} |
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| location = [[Balham, London|Balham]], [[Surrey]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom|UK]] |
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| deathdate = {{death date and age |1972|5|22|1892|5|11}} |
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| deathplace = [[Chalfont St Peter]], [[Buckinghamshire]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom|UK]] |
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| birthname = Margaret Taylor Rutherford |
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| occupation = Actress |
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| yearsactive = 1936–1967 |
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| spouse = [[Stringer Davis]] (1945-1972) (her death) |
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'''Dame Margaret Rutherford''', [[Order of the British Empire|DBE]] (May 11, 1892 – May 22, 1972) was an [[England|English]] [[character actress]], who first came to prominence following [[World War II]] in the film adaptations of [[Noel Coward]]'s ''[[Blithe Spirit (film)|Blithe Spirit]]'', and [[Oscar Wilde]]'s ''[[The Importance of Being Earnest]]''. She is best-known for her 1960s performances as [[Miss Marple]] in several films based loosely on [[Agatha Christie]]'s novels. |
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==Cathedral== |
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There may have been a [[Celtic Christianity|Celtic Christian]] church called 'Lanprobi' at the site, but the first reliable historical records are of the Saxon cathedral founded there in 705 by [[Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne|Aldhelm]], whom his kinsman, King [[Ine of Wessex]], appointed the first bishop of the see of Western [[Wessex]], with his seat at Sherborne.<ref name="Friendsbook">{{cite book |
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}}</ref> Fragments of that original cathedral survive in the present building. Aldhelm was the first of twenty-seven bishops of Sherborne. |
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==Early life== |
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Born in the Surrey town of [[Balham, London|Balham]], Margaret Taylor Rutherford was the only child of William Rutherford Benn and his wife, the former Florence Nicholson. Her father's brother [[Sir John Benn, 1st Baronet]] was a British politician, and her first cousin once removed is British politician [[Tony Benn]]. |
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The twentieth bishop was Wulfsige III (or [[Wulfsin|St. Wulfsin]]). In [[998]] he established a Benedictine abbey at Sherborne and became its first abbot. In [[1075]] the bishopric of Sherborne was transferred to [[Old Sarum]], so Sherborne remained an abbey church but was no longer a cathedral. The bishop (in Old Sarum) remained the nominal head of the abbey until [[1122]], when [[Roger de Caen]], [[Bishop of Salisbury]], made the abbey independent. |
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Rutherford's father suffered from mental illness, having suffered a nervous breakdown on his honeymoon, and was confined to an asylum. He was eventually released on holiday and on 4 March 1883, he murdered his father, Reverend Julius Benn, a [[Congregational church]] minister, by bludgeoning him to death with a chamberpot; shortly afterward, William tried to kill himself as well, by slashing his throat with a pocketknife.<ref name="Ind">{{cite web |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20040307/ai_n12751110/pg_3 |title=A LIFE IN FILMS: Murder she hid |publisher=The Independent on Sunday (via findarticles.com) |author=Matthew Sweet |date=March 7, 2004 |accessdate=2007-11-30}}</ref> After the murder, William Benn was confined to the [[Broadmoor]] aslyum for the criminally insane. Several years later he was released, reportedly cured of his mental affliction, changed his surname to Rutherford, and returned to his wife. |
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The abbey was rebuilt in the [[12th century]], in [[Normans|Norman]] style, and again in the [[15th century]], in [[Perpendicular Period|Perpendicular style]]. The [[fan vault|fan-vaulting]] in the choir for which Sherborne is still famous was added in that [[15th century]] remodeling by Abbot [[John Brunyng]] (1415-1436). |
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As an infant Rutherford and her parents moved to India but she was returned to Britain when she was three to live with an aunt, professional governess Bessie Nicholson, in [[Wimbledon]], [[England]], after her mother committed suicide by hanging herself from a tree.<ref name="Screen Lives 2001. P 291">''Stage and Screen Lives'', Oxford University Press, 2001. P 291</ref> Her father returned to England as well. His continued mental illness resulted in his being confined once more to Broadmoor in 1904; he died in 1921. |
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==Parish church== |
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The Benedictine foundation at Sherborne ended in the [[Dissolution of the Monasteries]] in [[1539]], but instead of surrendering the abbey to King [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]], the people of Sherborne (as the people of many other places did) bought the building to be their parish church, which it still is. In [[1550]], King [[Edward VI of England|Edward VI]] issued a new charter to the school that had existed at Sherborne since [[705]], and some of the remaining abbey buildings were turned over to it. |
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Rutherford was educated at the independent [[Wimbledon High School]] and at [[RADA]]. |
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==Career== |
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Having worked as a teacher of elocution, she went into acting later in life - making her stage debut at the [[Old Vic]] in 1925 at the age of thirty-three. Her physical appearance was such that romantic heroines were almost out of the question, and she soon established her name in comedy, appearing in many of the most successful British films of the mid-twentieth century. "I never intended to play for laughs. I am always surprised that the audience thinks me funny at all", Rutherford wrote in her autobiography.<ref>Rutherford, Margaret, as told to Gwen Robyns. ''Margaret Rutherford: An Autobiography''. W. H. Allen, London. 1972.</ref> In most of these films, she had originally played the role on stage. She married the actor [[Stringer Davis]] in 1945. They often appeared together in films. |
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In the 1950s, Rutherford and Davis adopted the writer Gordon Langley Hall, then in his twenties. Hall later had gender reassignment surgery and became [[Dawn Langley Simmons]], under which name she wrote a biography of Rutherford in 1983. |
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In 1957, Rutherford appeared as Cynthia Gordon in the episode "The Kissing Bandit" of the [[United States|American]] sitcom filmed in England, ''[[Dick and the Duchess]]'', starring [[Patrick O'Neal]] and [[Hazel Court]]. In 1961, Rutherford first played the film role with which she was most often associated in later life, that of [[Miss Marple]] in a series of four films loosely based on the novels of [[Agatha Christie]]. Rutherford, then age seventy, insisted on wearing her own clothes for the part and having her husband appear alongside her. |
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In 1964, [[George Harrison]], when asked who his favourite girl film star was by [[Cathy McGowan]] on ''[[Ready Steady Go!]]'', replied "Margaret Rutherford". |
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==External links== |
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* [http://www.sherborneabbey.com Sherborne Abbey official website] |
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* {{CathEncy|wstitle=Sherborne Abbey}} |
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Rutherford won an [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress]] and a [[Golden Globe]] for ''[[The V.I.P.s|The VIPs]]'' (1963), as the absent-minded Duchess of Brighton, opposite [[Elizabeth Taylor]] and [[Richard Burton]]. She also played [[Mistress Quickly]] in [[Orson Welles]]' ''[[Chimes at Midnight]]'' in 1966. |
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She was created an Officer of the [[Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in 1961, and raised to Dame Commander (DBE) in 1967. |
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==Later life and death== |
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She suffered from [[Alzheimer's disease]] at the end of her life. Sir [[John Gielgud]] wrote: "Her last appearance at the [[Haymarket Theatre]] with Sir [[Ralph Richardson]] in ''[[The Rivals]]'', an engagement which she was finally obliged to give up after a few weeks, was a most poignant struggle against her obviously failing powers." <ref name="Screen Lives 2001. P 291"/> |
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Dame Margaret Rutherford is buried along with her husband, Stringer Davis, who died in August 1973, in the graveyard of St. James Church, [[Gerrards Cross]], [[Buckinghamshire, England]]. |
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== Selected stage performances == |
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* ''[[Blithe Spirit (play)|Blithe Spirit]]'' |
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* ''[[The Way of the World]]'' |
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* ''[[The Importance of Being Earnest]]'', as Miss Prism and in New York (1947) as Lady Bracknell, directed by [[John Gielgud]] |
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* ''[[The Rivals]]'' |
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* ''[[The School for Scandal]]'' |
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* ''[[The Solid Gold Cadillac]]'' (1965) |
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==Filmography== |
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|rowspan=3|1936 |
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|''Talk of the Devil'' |
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|Housekeeper |
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|''Dusty Ermine'' |
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|Evelyn Summers aka Miss Butterby, old gang moll |
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|''Troubled Waters'' |
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|rowspan=4|1937 |
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|''Missing, Believed Married'' |
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|Lady Parke |
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|''Catch As Catch Can'' |
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|Maggie Carberry |
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|''Big Fella'' |
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|Nanny |
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|''Beauty and the Barge'' |
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|Mrs. Baldwin |
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|rowspan=2|1941 |
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|''Spring Meeting'' |
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|Aunt Bijou |
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|''Quiet Wedding'' |
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|Magistrate |
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|rowspan=2|1943 |
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|''[[Yellow Canary (film)|Yellow Canary]]'' |
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|''[[The Demi-Paradise]]'' |
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|Rowena Ventnor |
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|''English Without Tears'' |
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|Lady Christabel Beauclerk |
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|''[[Blithe Spirit (film)|Blithe Spirit]]'' |
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|Madame Arcati |
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|rowspan=2|1947 |
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|''While the Sun Shines'' |
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|Dr. Winifred Frye |
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|''Meet Me at Dawn'' |
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|Madame Vernore |
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|''[[Miranda (1948 film)|Miranda]]'' |
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|Nurse Carey |
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|1949 |
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|''[[Passport to Pimlico]]'' |
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|Professor Hatton-Jones |
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|''[[The Happiest Days of Your Life]]'' |
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|Muriel Whitchurch |
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|''Quel bandito sono io''<br>(UK title: ''Her Favorite Husband'') |
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|Mrs. Dotherington |
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|1951 |
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|''[[The Magic Box]]'' |
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|Lady Pond |
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|rowspan=4|1952 |
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|''[[Curtain Up]]'' |
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|Catherine Beckwith/Jeremy St. Claire |
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|''[[Miss Robin Hood]]'' |
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|Miss Honey |
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|''[[The Importance of Being Earnest (1952 film)|The Importance of Being Earnest]]'' |
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|Miss Letitia Prism |
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|Miss Nicholson |
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|''[[Innocents in Paris]]'' |
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|''[[Trouble in Store]]'' |
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|Miss Bacon |
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|''[[The Runaway Bus]]'' |
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|Miss Cynthia Beeston |
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|''[[Mad About Men]]'' |
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|Nurse Carey |
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|''[[Aunt Clara (1954 film)|Aunt Clara]]'' |
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|Clara Hilton |
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|''[[An Alligator Named Daisy]]'' |
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|Prudence Croquet |
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|rowspan=2|1957 |
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|''[[The Smallest Show on Earth]]'' |
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|Mrs. Fazackalee |
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|''[[Just My Luck]]'' |
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|''[[I'm All Right Jack]]'' |
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|''[[On the Double (film)|On the Double]]'' |
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|Lady Vivian |
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|''[[Murder, She Said]]'' |
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|[[Miss Jane Marple]] |
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|''[[Murder at the Gallop]]'' |
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|Miss Jane Marple |
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|''[[The Mouse on the Moon]]'' |
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|Grand Duchess Gloriana XIII |
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|''[[The V.I.P.s]]'' |
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|The Duchess of Brighton |
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|[[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress]]<br>[[Golden Globe]] |
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|rowspan=2|1964 |
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|''[[Murder Most Foul]]'' |
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|Miss Jane Marple |
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|''[[Murder Ahoy!]]'' |
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|Miss Jane Marple |
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|''[[Chimes at Midnight]]'' |
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|Mistress Quickly |
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|''[[The Alphabet Murders]]'' |
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|Miss Jane Marple |
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|rowspan=3|1967 |
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|''[[A Countess from Hong Kong]]'' |
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|Miss Gaulswallow |
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|''[[Arabella (1967 film)|Arabella]]'' |
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|Princess Ilaria |
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|''[[The Wacky World of Mother Goose]]'' |
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|Mother Goose |
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==References== |
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==Further reading== |
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* Rutherford, Margaret, as told to Gwen Robyns. ''Margaret Rutherford: An Autobiography''. W. H. Allen, London. 1972. |
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* Simmons, Dawn Langley. ''Margaret Rutherford. A Blithe Spirit''. London, 1983. |
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* Merriman, Andy, ''Margaret Rutherford: Dreadnought with Good Manners''. London, Aurum Press. 2009. {{ISBN|9781845134457}} |
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==External links== |
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*{{imdb name|0751983}} |
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*[http://www.bris.ac.uk/theatrecollection/search/people_sub_plays_all?forename=Margaret&surname=RUTHERFORD&job=Actor&pid=1875&image_view=Yesamp;x=19amp;y=17 Performances in Theatre Archive, University of Bristol] |
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Latest revision as of 20:14, 22 July 2017
Dame Margaret Rutherford | |
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| [[File:[Margaret Rutherford.gif]|frameless|upright=1]] | |
| Born | Margaret Taylor Rutherford |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1936–1967 |
| Spouse | Stringer Davis (1945-1972) (her death) |
Dame Margaret Rutherford, DBE (May 11, 1892 – May 22, 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. She is best-known for her 1960s performances as Miss Marple in several films based loosely on Agatha Christie's novels.
Early life
[edit]Born in the Surrey town of Balham, Margaret Taylor Rutherford was the only child of William Rutherford Benn and his wife, the former Florence Nicholson. Her father's brother Sir John Benn, 1st Baronet was a British politician, and her first cousin once removed is British politician Tony Benn.
Rutherford's father suffered from mental illness, having suffered a nervous breakdown on his honeymoon, and was confined to an asylum. He was eventually released on holiday and on 4 March 1883, he murdered his father, Reverend Julius Benn, a Congregational church minister, by bludgeoning him to death with a chamberpot; shortly afterward, William tried to kill himself as well, by slashing his throat with a pocketknife.[1] After the murder, William Benn was confined to the Broadmoor aslyum for the criminally insane. Several years later he was released, reportedly cured of his mental affliction, changed his surname to Rutherford, and returned to his wife.
As an infant Rutherford and her parents moved to India but she was returned to Britain when she was three to live with an aunt, professional governess Bessie Nicholson, in Wimbledon, England, after her mother committed suicide by hanging herself from a tree.[2] Her father returned to England as well. His continued mental illness resulted in his being confined once more to Broadmoor in 1904; he died in 1921.
Rutherford was educated at the independent Wimbledon High School and at RADA.
Career
[edit]Having worked as a teacher of elocution, she went into acting later in life - making her stage debut at the Old Vic in 1925 at the age of thirty-three. Her physical appearance was such that romantic heroines were almost out of the question, and she soon established her name in comedy, appearing in many of the most successful British films of the mid-twentieth century. "I never intended to play for laughs. I am always surprised that the audience thinks me funny at all", Rutherford wrote in her autobiography.[3] In most of these films, she had originally played the role on stage. She married the actor Stringer Davis in 1945. They often appeared together in films.
In the 1950s, Rutherford and Davis adopted the writer Gordon Langley Hall, then in his twenties. Hall later had gender reassignment surgery and became Dawn Langley Simmons, under which name she wrote a biography of Rutherford in 1983.
In 1957, Rutherford appeared as Cynthia Gordon in the episode "The Kissing Bandit" of the American sitcom filmed in England, Dick and the Duchess, starring Patrick O'Neal and Hazel Court. In 1961, Rutherford first played the film role with which she was most often associated in later life, that of Miss Marple in a series of four films loosely based on the novels of Agatha Christie. Rutherford, then age seventy, insisted on wearing her own clothes for the part and having her husband appear alongside her.
In 1964, George Harrison, when asked who his favourite girl film star was by Cathy McGowan on Ready Steady Go!, replied "Margaret Rutherford".
Rutherford won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Golden Globe for The VIPs (1963), as the absent-minded Duchess of Brighton, opposite Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. She also played Mistress Quickly in Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight in 1966.
She was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1961, and raised to Dame Commander (DBE) in 1967.
Later life and death
[edit]She suffered from Alzheimer's disease at the end of her life. Sir John Gielgud wrote: "Her last appearance at the Haymarket Theatre with Sir Ralph Richardson in The Rivals, an engagement which she was finally obliged to give up after a few weeks, was a most poignant struggle against her obviously failing powers." [2]
Dame Margaret Rutherford is buried along with her husband, Stringer Davis, who died in August 1973, in the graveyard of St. James Church, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England.
Selected stage performances
[edit]- Blithe Spirit
- The Way of the World
- The Importance of Being Earnest, as Miss Prism and in New York (1947) as Lady Bracknell, directed by John Gielgud
- The Rivals
- The School for Scandal
- The Solid Gold Cadillac (1965)
Filmography
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| 1936 | Talk of the Devil | Housekeeper | |
| Dusty Ermine | Evelyn Summers aka Miss Butterby, old gang moll | ||
| Troubled Waters | Bit role | uncredited | |
| 1937 | Missing, Believed Married | Lady Parke | |
| Catch As Catch Can | Maggie Carberry | ||
| Big Fella | Nanny | uncredited | |
| Beauty and the Barge | Mrs. Baldwin | ||
| 1941 | Spring Meeting | Aunt Bijou | |
| Quiet Wedding | Magistrate | ||
| 1943 | Yellow Canary | Mrs. Towcester | |
| The Demi-Paradise | Rowena Ventnor | ||
| 1944 | English Without Tears | Lady Christabel Beauclerk | |
| 1945 | Blithe Spirit | Madame Arcati | |
| 1947 | While the Sun Shines | Dr. Winifred Frye | |
| Meet Me at Dawn | Madame Vernore | ||
| 1948 | Miranda | Nurse Carey | |
| 1949 | Passport to Pimlico | Professor Hatton-Jones | |
| 1950 | The Happiest Days of Your Life | Muriel Whitchurch | |
| Quel bandito sono io (UK title: Her Favorite Husband) |
Mrs. Dotherington | ||
| 1951 | The Magic Box | Lady Pond | |
| 1952 | Curtain Up | Catherine Beckwith/Jeremy St. Claire | |
| Miss Robin Hood | Miss Honey | ||
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Miss Letitia Prism | ||
| Castle in the Air | Miss Nicholson | ||
| 1953 | Innocents in Paris | Gwladys Inglott | |
| Trouble in Store | Miss Bacon | ||
| 1954 | The Runaway Bus | Miss Cynthia Beeston | |
| Mad About Men | Nurse Carey | ||
| Aunt Clara | Clara Hilton | ||
| 1955 | An Alligator Named Daisy | Prudence Croquet | |
| 1957 | The Smallest Show on Earth | Mrs. Fazackalee | |
| Just My Luck | Mrs. Dooley | ||
| 1959 | I'm All Right Jack | Aunt Dolly | |
| 1961 | On the Double | Lady Vivian | |
| Murder, She Said | Miss Jane Marple | ||
| 1963 | Murder at the Gallop | Miss Jane Marple | |
| The Mouse on the Moon | Grand Duchess Gloriana XIII | ||
| The V.I.P.s | The Duchess of Brighton | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe | |
| 1964 | Murder Most Foul | Miss Jane Marple | |
| Murder Ahoy! | Miss Jane Marple | ||
| 1965 | Chimes at Midnight | Mistress Quickly | |
| The Alphabet Murders | Miss Jane Marple | uncredited cameo | |
| 1967 | A Countess from Hong Kong | Miss Gaulswallow | |
| Arabella | Princess Ilaria | ||
| The Wacky World of Mother Goose | Mother Goose | voice |
References
[edit]- ^ Matthew Sweet (March 7, 2004). "A LIFE IN FILMS: Murder she hid". The Independent on Sunday (via findarticles.com). Retrieved 2007-11-30.
- ^ a b Stage and Screen Lives, Oxford University Press, 2001. P 291
- ^ Rutherford, Margaret, as told to Gwen Robyns. Margaret Rutherford: An Autobiography. W. H. Allen, London. 1972.
Further reading
[edit]- Rutherford, Margaret, as told to Gwen Robyns. Margaret Rutherford: An Autobiography. W. H. Allen, London. 1972.
- Simmons, Dawn Langley. Margaret Rutherford. A Blithe Spirit. London, 1983.
- Merriman, Andy, Margaret Rutherford: Dreadnought with Good Manners. London, Aurum Press. 2009. ISBN 9781845134457
External links
[edit]- Ged UK/Sandbox 1 at IMDb
- Ged UK/Sandbox 1 at the Internet Broadway Database
- Performances in Theatre Archive, University of Bristol
- Ged UK/Sandbox 1 at the BFI's Screenonline
- Ged UK/Sandbox 1 at Find a Grave