{"id":2069,"date":"2022-05-22T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T07:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=2069"},"modified":"2022-03-23T16:39:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T16:39:12","slug":"margaret-rutherford-50th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2022\/05\/22\/margaret-rutherford-50th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Margaret Rutherford 50th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"194\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/03\/margaret-r1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2071\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>22 May marks the 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the death of English actress of stage, television and film, Dame Margaret Rutherford (1892-1972). For many she is the archetypal Miss Marple (she played the role in four films loosely based on Agatha Christie\u2019s writings) but was also known for comedy roles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She played Miss Prism in John Gielgud\u2019s production of \u2018The Importance of Being Earnest\u2019 in 1939 with her first major screen success in 1945 as Madame Arcati in David Lean\u2019s \u2018Blithe Spirit\u2019. Her jaunty performance, cycling about the Kent&nbsp;countryside, head held high, back straight, and cape fluttering behind her, established the model for portraying that type of role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She appeared in the Ealing Comedy \u2018Passport to Pimlico\u2019 in 1949. [For those who have never seen an Ealing Comedy, I urge you to do so. My particular favourite being \u2018Kind Hearts and Coronets\u2019. Ed]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She died on 22 May 1972 in the charmingly named, almost out of a Miss Marple novel, Chalfont St Peters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"190\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/03\/margaret2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2072\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>22 May marks the 50th anniversary of the death of English actress of stage, television and film, Dame Margaret Rutherford (1892-1972). For many she is the archetypal Miss Marple (she played the role in four films loosely based on Agatha Christie\u2019s writings) but was also known for comedy roles. She played Miss Prism in John &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2022\/05\/22\/margaret-rutherford-50th-anniversary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Margaret Rutherford 50th anniversary&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":2070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anniversaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2073,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions\/2073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}