La Miss Marple He is one of the most famous characters in literature. Created by Agatha Christie, there are many film and television adaptations, where he has appeared as the protagonist. So, since today is the birth anniversary from the immortal writer of mystery and intrigue, we review those faces of actresses who have given it life on the screens. Most of them have also been British and great on the scene.
La Miss Marple
Possibly, Jane Marple is one of the most beloved in literature, due to her endearing character and her knowledge of human nature. And perhaps Agatha Christie's readers will prefer it to her other male counterpart, the very famous Hercules Poirot. Single and now in years, he lives in St Mary Mead, a small, fictional town in the English countryside. He has a nephew writer, Raymond West, who visits her often.
Described with the White hair, sweets blue eyess, also a sweet and gentle gesture and full of wrinkles, she is tall and thin, with a fragile appearance. fan of gardening and ornithology, does not miss a detail of what is happening around her and among her neighbors whom she knows well, although she is not free from being labeled as a snooper and ill-thinking. That ability to study others plus your intuition They have helped her investigate and solve many impossible cases and she often collaborates with the authorities of Scotland Yard. But sometimes they don't like what they believe to be an intrusion and sometimes they treat it with condescension.
Miss Marple appeared in a first story, The Tuesday Club of a series of several that were published in British and North American magazines. The novels in which she stars are:
- Death in the vicarage (1930)
- A corpse in the library (1942)
- The case of the anonymous (1942)
- A murder is announced (1950)
- The mirror trick (1952)
- A handful of rye (1953)
- The 4:50 train (1957)
- The mirror cracked from one side to the other / side by side (1962)
- Mystery in the Caribbean (1964)
- At the Bertram hotel (1965)
- Nemesis (1971)
- A sleeping crime (1976) – written during World War II.
Miss Marple — faces
Movies
- Gracie fields
In 1956 this English actress played Miss Marple in an American television version of A murder is announced. Also in the cast were Jessica Tandy and Roger Moore.
- margaret rutherford
Rutherford was the first actress to attract attention in the cinema with her portrait of Miss Marple, the oldest, since she was already 70 years old. She starred four movies starting in 1961 and, among the anecdotes, are the actress's insistence on wearing her own clothes to play the character of the detective and that her husband appear along with her.
The 4:50 train was the first title, whose original, Murder She Said, Then he paraphrased that of another very popular series already in the 80s —Murder She Wrote- (It has written a crime). She starred Jessica Fletcher, another character similar to Miss Marple whom Angela Lansbury also gave life to. The other three were After the funeral, Murder on board y Mrs. McGinty is dead.
- Angela Landsbury
Perhaps the most international and famous face of these British actresses. In 1980 she was the protagonist of a version of The broken mirror. Set in 1953, a production company moves to the English town where Jane Marple lives to film a historical film, in which they are going to star. two famous actresses who hate each other to death. And during a gala reception a murder occurs.
- Ita Ever
Born in Estonia, gave a face to Miss Marple in a 1983 Russian film adaptation of A handful of rye.
- Helen Hayes
Another great lady of cinema, especially the oldest and most classic, this American had starred in titles such as Farewell to arms, Anastasia or Airport, and brought Miss Marple to life in reflections in the night (1985), where he investigates a murder at a friend's castle, which is also a rehabilitation center.
TV
The small screen is where this character has had the most experience and, above all, in Miss Marple from the ITV network, where we see her with three faces in several seasons. This series It can be found at television channels such as Paramount, various platforms (Filmin, Apple TV) and also in YouTube.
- Joan Hickson
A mid 80 This actress played Miss Marple in the first season. She also recorded several audiobooks.
- Geraldine McEwan
- julia mckenzie
And finally, we close with this theater director, singer and actress who replaced the previous one in 2008.