![]() ![]() Murder Most Foul begins with Miss Marple as the sole juror holding out for acquittal in a trial. ![]() Moody is best remembered for his portrayal of Fagin in Oliver! (1968). It also co-starred Ron Moody as Clifford Cosgood, a theatrical character desperately searching for investors for his next production. McGinty's Dead), rather than a Miss Marple story. Like Murder at the Gallop (1963), it was actually based on an Hercule Poirot novel ( Mrs. Murder Most Foul (1964) was the third made, and the last released. Stringer, the local librarian and Miss Marple's partner in crime detection, is played by Rutherford's real-life husband, Stringer Davis. ![]() It is Miss Marple who is the star of an installment of four films released during the 1960's.īetween 19, MGM made four Miss Marple films starring Margaret Rutherford at their British studios. The inimitable Detective Poirot solves the crimes in over forty of her novels, while Miss Marple appears in twelve. ![]() Her stories have been widely interpreted on screen and television, but the creation of such memorable characters as Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple is one of the biggest keys to her success. With 79 novels and over a dozen screenplays to her credit, she is the third best-selling author behind the Bible and Shakespeare. They met, ended up becoming fast friends, and Christie dedicated one of her books, The Mirror Crack?d, to "my friend, Margaret Rutherford."Īgatha Christie is inarguably the world's most successful mystery author. "I never found murder amusing, I don't like anything that tends to lower or debase or degrade," she explained. Moreover, Rutherford didn?t want to do it. And Christie didn't think the large, ungainly Rutherford resembled Miss Marple at all. She had modeled Miss Marple after a favorite aunt, a "fragile, pink and white lady," as Rutherford later recalled. In 1960, MGM bought the rights to most of the author's books and short stories for three million dollars, and immediately decided that the eccentric amateur sleuth would make a terrific movie, starring England?s equally eccentric grande dame, Margaret Rutherford.Īgatha Christie didn't agree. Mary Mead and whose hobbies are knitting and solving crimes, is one of Agatha Christie's most endearing creations, the heroine of over fifteen mysteries. Miss Jane Marple, an elderly British spinster who lives in the quiet village of St. ![]()
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