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	Margaret Rutherford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rutherford took great umbrage when she learned that Christie had expressed concerns about her (Rutherford's) girth as Miss Marple is usually portrayed and played as a trim, tallish spinster.
		Rutherford won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for The VIPs (1963), as the absent-minded Duchess of Brighton, opposite Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, but she did not appear in person at the telecast to receive the award.
		Rutherford was awarded an OBE in 1961 and in 1967 she was created a Dame of the British Empire (DBE).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Margaret_Rutherford (375 words)

	Margaret Rutherford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Margaret Rutherford began her thespian's career first as a student at London's Old Vic, debuting on stage in 1925.
		Appearing as Madame Arcati, the fake psychic, was Margaret Rutherford, in a role in which Coward had earlier envisaged her and which he then especially shaped for her.
		Rutherford could always be counted upon for a deft comedy performance, and she was ideally cast as Agatha Christie's spinster sleuth, Miss Marple, in four 1960s whodunits: Murder, She Said (1961), Murder at the Gallop (1963), Murder Ahoy and Murder Most Foul (both 1964).
	www.movietreasures.com /main/Margaret_Rutherford/margaret_rutherford.html (479 words)

	Margaret Rutherford - The films, movies, cinema, biography of British movie actress
		Margaret Rutherford, the daughter of William Benn and Florence Rutherford, was born on
		Margaret's mother died when she was three years old and she was brought up by her aunt.
		Not only would this become one of Rutherford's most memorable screen performances, with her bicycling about the Kentish countryside, cape fluttering behind her, but as well it would establish the model for portraying that pseudo-soothsayer forever thereafter.
	www.britishcinemagreats.com /Actors_page/margaret_rutherford/margaret_rutherford_page_1.htm (332 words)

	Margaret RUTHERFORD - Vikipedio
		Margaret RUTHERFORD (naskiĝis la 11-an de majo 1892, mortis la 22-an de majo, 1972) estis brita aktorino.
		Post sukcesa teatra kariero ŝi en la jaro 1936 unuafoje aperis en filmoj: plej ofte en karakteraj roloj, kiuj bone montris ŝian grandan komedian talenton.
		En la jaro 1963 Margaret RUTHERFORD gajnis Oskaron : por la plej bona epizoda rolo en la filmo The V.I.P.s.
	eo.wikipedia.org /wiki/Margaret_RUTHERFORD (121 words)

	Rutherford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, known as the "father of nuclear physics".
		Daniel Rutherford, a British chemist and physician who is most famous for the discovery of nitrogen.
		Rutherford B Hayes, 19th President of the United States
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rutherford (135 words)

	web\html - pafg47 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Benjamin RUTHERFORD [Parents] was born in 1718 in Essex Co., Va..
		Myrtle RUTHERFORD was born in Aug 1896 in TX.
		Margaret RUTHERFORD [Parents] was born on 26 Sep 1914.
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	web\html - pafg19 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Bartlett RUTHERFORD was born on 24 Jun 1864.
		Austin RUTHERFORD was born in Feb 1868 in Cocke Co?, Tn..
		Margaret RUTHERFORD was born on 26 May 1869.
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	conTEXT-Joyce Keener, Margaret Rutherford, Launa Romoff, Libby Wadsworth
		Margaret Rutherford has created a narrative, I Grew Up With the Dead, made up of framed prints and poetry, chronicling her experience growing up as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor.
		Rutherford says she exposes “the experience of growing up in a home permeated by [her] mother’s loss and trauma.
		The photographs are borrowed images from the war, which Rutherford has photographed, scanned, and uses as a visual commentary on her retelling.
	www.mkartcenter.org /context.html (1231 words)

	TCM By the Book, '99: "Murder Most Foul" - Behind the Scene
		Margaret Rutherford was initially reluctant to play Miss Marple, because she did not feel that murder should be entertainment.
		Rutherford's own father had been in prison, and Rutherford herself performed readings for prisoners.
		Although at first Agatha Christie did not think Rutherford was the right actress to play Miss Marple, she eventually changed her mind, and dedicated The Mirror Cracked from Side to Side (1962) to "my friend, Margaret Rutherford." This book was made into a film in 1981, with Angela Lansbury as Miss Marple.
	learning.turner.com /tcmbythebook/99/mm_bs.html (135 words)

	Search Results for Rutherford - Encyclopædia Britannica
		Hayes, Rutherford B. 19th president of the United States (1877–81), who brought post-Civil War Reconstruction to an end in the South and who tried to establish new standards of official integrity after eight years of...
		Rutherford, Ernest, Baron Rutherford of Nelson, of Cambridge
		Rutherford overturned Thomson's model in 1911 with his well-known gold foil experiment in which he demonstrated that the atom has a tiny, massive nucleus.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=Rutherford&submit=Find&source=MWTAB (396 words)

	Margaret Rutherford
		, the daughter of William Benn and Florence Rutherford, was born in 1892.
		In 1925 Rutherford was accepted as a student at the Old Vic Theatre where she appeared in several small roles.
		Margaret Rutherford, who was married to the actor, Stringer Davis, died in 1972.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /ACrutherford.htm (256 words)

	Screen Archives
		Still, Rutherford's first "Marple" movie "Murder She Said" did so well at the box office that there was no question she would continue appearing in the role in the inevitable sequels.
		Margaret Rutherford stars as the grey-haired, wily sleuth who will not give up until all the pieces of a puzzle have been neatly put in place.
		Margaret Rutherford, of course, doesn't allow anything alien to deter her Marple, and she seems to enjoy discovering how Marple would react to these various types - mainly by taking them in her very proper British stride.
	www.screenarchives.com /title_detail.cfm?ID=713 (917 words)

	Margaret Rutherford @ Filmbug
		Dame Margaret Rutherford was a British 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.
		Rutherford won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for The VIPs (1963), as the absent-minded Duchess of Brighton, opposite Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
		Her husband was the actor Stringer Davis, whom she married in 1945 and with whom she often appeared.
	www.filmbug.com /db/344701 (321 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Blithe Spirit [1945]: Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Margaret Rutherford, as always, steals the show as the sardonic medium.
		His intention is to perform research for a novel he is writing but the medium, brilliantly played by Margaret Rutherford, unwittingly raises the spirit of his deceased first wife,Elvira.
		Margaret Rutherford is one of my favourite comic actresses and she's on form in this film, playing a dotty old medium, Madam Arcati, who conjures up the spirit of her client's first wife - and is then quite at a loss to know how to get rid of her.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000057RBR (984 words)

	Dame Margaret Rutherford
		Rutherford's film career began in her middle years, and she soon built a reputation for playing the brainy spinster and the dotty British eccentric.
		A LIFE IN FILMS: Murder she hid; More than her Miss Prism, more than her Madame Arcati, it is Miss Marple, the spinster with a passionate interest in crime, that defines Margaret Rutherford on film.
		The historical ideology of Mildred Lewis Rutherford: a confederate historian's New South creed.
	www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0763138.html (338 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Agatha Christie's Murder Most Foul [1964]: Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Margaret Rutherford is perfect for this particular Marple-persona.
		Margaret Rutherford gives a delightful audition to get in but the director isn't convinced (played by Ron Moody of Oliver fame) but he soon reconsiders when he learns Miss Marple is independently wealthy.
		Whether you picture Miss Marple as Margaret Rutherford portrays her or not you will probably still enjoy her unique style in the role.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004CKOW (791 words)

	Margaret Rutherford - Best Supporting Actress: MovieActors.com
		Margaret Rutherford won her Supporting Oscar for playing the confused and eccentric dowager traveling to Florida in THE V.I.P.'S. Margaret Rutherford (1892 - 1972)
		British comedy character actress, at the age of 74 Margaret Rutherford received the honor of "Dame of the British Empire" from Queen Elizabeth.
		While Margaret Rutherford was in her 70's she played Miss Marple in Agatha Christie's sleuth films, including:
	www.movieactors.com /winsw/sw63.htm (75 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Person : Margaret Rutherford : Biography
		Rutherford began appearing in films in 1936 and went on to have a sporadically busy screen career through the late '60s, meanwhile continuing her illustrious stage career.
		In 1967 Rutherford became a Dame of the British Empire.
		She was married to actor Stringer Davis, with whom she appeared in several films; one of their children was writer Gordon Langley Hall, who underwent a sex-change operation in 1968 and later wrote a biography of Rutherford under the name "Dawn Langley Hall." She wrote an autobiography, Margaret Rutherford (1972).
	www.vh1.com /movies/person/54949/bio.jhtml (225 words)

	BBC - Films - review - Murder, She Said (1961)
		It's more 'murder she cries' than "Murder, She Said" as Margaret Rutherford picks up the mantle of Miss Marple.
		After witnessing a murder, Miss Marple reports it to the police who gently suggest that she might have imagined it and that she should forget it.
		The last thing you'll do is die of shock but the fun in watching Rutherford is entertainment enough in what is a delightfully dotty old film.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2000/09/28/murder_she_said_review.shtml (366 words)

	Britmovie - Margaret Rutherford Biography
		Margaret Rutherford became one of the best-loved eccentric character actresses in the post-war cinema.
		While her ample frame lacked the conventional appearance of the female star, her performances never lacked sparkle, though her gung-ho ebullience was often laced with something quite touching.
		She received an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for The V.I.Ps (1963).
	www.britmovie.co.uk /actors/r/004.html (95 words)

	Amazon.com: The Smallest Show on Earth (1957) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It's likeable rather than hilarious, with Sellers and Miles buried under crepe hair and fake wrinkles competing to out-dodder each other and losing the picture to the inimitable Rutherford, who doesn't have to fake her eccentricity.
		You are tenderly entertained, then, by the actors Rutherford, Sellers, and Bernard Miles who were former employees and a threesome tossed into the plot as part of the inheritance.
		Margaret Rutherford was the deceased's "courtesan" ticket-seller bookkeeper who found a way to keep the old theater operating by taking in, as admission ticket "money," chickens, eggs, and such bookkeeping entries.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6302250021?v=glance (2203 words)

	Amazon.ca: Mouse on the Moon (Widescreen/Full Screen): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Magaret Rutherford is great as the clueless Grand Duchess, I wish there was more of her in the movie.
		Margaret Rutherford even says a line that John Lennon would say in HDN.
		I figured that with her name FIRST in the cast list, that she MUST be the star of this picture.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004ZBVN (835 words)

	Margaret Rutherford Movies @ Filmbug
		Movies on DVD with or related to Margaret Rutherford.
		With Margaret Rutherford, Stanley Holloway and Hermione Baddeley
		Click here for region 2 encoded Margaret Rutherford DVDs (Europe, Japan, Middle East and South Africa).
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	Find in a Library: Margaret Rutherford: an autobiography
		Subjects: Rutherford, Margaret, -- Dame, -- 1892-
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	The V.I.P.'s movie posters and memorabilia at MovieGoods
		There when history happened — Lauren Bacall was visiting a friend in the Dakota when John Lennon was killed, and actually heard the gunshot.
		A movie tycoon, an Australian entrepreneur, his secretary, and a duchess are among the other passengers grounded by the fog.
		Both Rutherford and Smith give excellent performances and it was a tossup as to which actress would be nominated for the Oscar.
	www.moviegoods.com /movie_product.asp?master_movie_id=1543&movie_nss=&MGAID=U7JD1194 (297 words)

	The Importance of Being Earnest
		But it is the two character actresses who steal this show and remain permanently engraved on the world's funny bone.
		The great Margaret Rutherford, bearing perhaps the most inhabited face ever on screen, is Miss Prism, governess to Cecily.
		She woos the local canon with promises of the lasting allure of women of intelligence, her never still tongue rolling about in her cheek, a demented look in her hopeful eye.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/ImportanceofBeingEarnest.htm (520 words)

	Margaret Rutherford
		If Alastair Sim was the King of British character actors, then the undoubted Queen was Margaret Rutherford.
		With her impeccable comic timing and a face like a startled bloodhound she was a natural; the sort of player that only comes along once in a generation.
		Videos starring Margaret Rutherford available at sendit.com Videos)
	www.britishpictures.com /stars/Rutherford.htm (392 words)

	8mm Forum: Margaret Rutherford on Super 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Being a big Margaret Rutherford fan I was wondering which of her films were ever released on super 8.
		When our local[and very historic] cinema reopened in 1998 after a 12 month closure for essential roof repairs, The Smallest Show on Earth was their first film which they showed for one night only to a packed house.
		Shame about the Miss Marple films, they would have been great to collect, Margaret made a far better Miss Marple than the BBCs' latest contender whos name I can't remember...
	8mmforum.film-tech.com /ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=001116 (323 words)

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		Find out more on Margaret Rutherford at the Internet Movie Database
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