Why did Geraldine McEwan stop playing Miss Marple?
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- Опубліковано 27 чер 2024
- A more modern Miss Marple, The Twinkly Miss Marple, The 21st century Miss Marple - all these catch phrases are firmly attributed to the very special impersonation of this iconic character by this British actress with an elfin face and baby voice. Agatha Christie’s female sleuth brought her worldwide fame in her 70s, yet, shockingly, she decided to quit the signature part when at the peak. Why so? This video tells the intriguing life story of Geraldine McEwan.
What’s Inside:
0:00 Geraldine McEwan
0:46 From School to West End
6:12 From Shyness to Stars
13:21 21st century Miss Marple
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Loved all the Marples. Each uniquely rendered and aren’t we fortunate to have them available through the decades. Love them all.
Yes indeed!
You're right! They're all solid actresses in their own right.
Along with Prunella Scales, Geraldine McEwan made "Mapp and Lucia" a delight, and watching her delightful interpretation of Agatha Christie's sleuth got me to appreciate Miss Marple.
Thank you for this tribute. Geraldine McEwan is one of my all time favorites. I have seen Mapp and Lucia and laughed myself silly. Being very fond of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, I found Geraldine to be the best and most alive and interesting Miss Marple of all. In so many of the rolls she played, the twinkle in her eye gave me a feeling that mirth was a guiding light in her soul...and, always, she exuded composure and eccentricity...what a combination of traits! I loved her dearly.
Loved Mapp and Lucia beyond words! Bought it so my granddaughter and I could watch it over and over.
Oh, thank you for sharing this, glad to read that you liked Mapp and Lucia too.
I concur with your sentiments. She was a treasure.
I see myself locating and rewatching as much of her work as I can after this reminder.
@@QueenBee-gx4rp What a very blessed and fortunate granddaughter❣
I agree with McEwan being the most interesting. I did/do enjoy all the actors who played Miss Marple. Happy to have them all
I still watch her, Miss Marple❤
She was my favourite Miss Marple, she just embodied the part. Yes, others do it well but she was just ‘it’. Just like David Suchet , he ‘was’ Hercule Poirot. Bless her, she lost her hubby just before me. I so know how she felt , the loss never goes away. Bless her, a wonderful woman. 🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺
For me, she is just like the Miss Marple I envisage when I read Agatha Christie. I know that Christie saw Joan Hickson as being more like her character, but for me, Geraldine is the epitome of Miss Marple, and Joan H. is nothing like I imagine...
I absolutely love her! It was such a privilege to meet her (and Richard Briers) when they came to New York around the late '90's for the Ionesco play "The Chairs", they were wonderful in it. Rest in Peace.
Absolutely LOVED her. In Mapp and Lucia, and everything she did, priceless❤❤
No one ever mentions the 2 season series Geraldine McEwan did called Mulberry. I adored it and was very sad it was cancelled.
thank you for this excellent addition!
Yes, she was wonderful in Mulberry!
Mulberry is mentioned by name but she is shown being interviewed about the role at 1.22 alongside co-star Karl Howman.
Yes! My husband and I loved that series and were very sad when it ended.
Yes, I loved that show!
Always love your tributes, thank you😘 There were only 2 Miss Marples worth watching - Joan Hickson and Geraldine McEwan, each wonderful in their own way
Wonderful mini documentary! One thing you failed to mention, possibly because of the limited time at your disposal, but her appearance in the Barchester Chronicles with her co-star from Mapp and Lucia was luminous. 😊
Thank you for a wonderful video on Geraldine McEwan’s acting career, especially on our favourite Miss Marple series that I am still enjoying today! Cheers! 👏🏻👏🏻🥰🧑🏻🦰🇨🇦
I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
I loved her in Mapp and Lucia. She played a very good Jeab Brodie. Her parents were Scots so her accent was good for Ms Brodie. But , i am sorry Joan Hickson was the ultimate Miss Marple
Totally agree about Joan Hickson. Having read all Agatha Christie books several times Joan Hickson was the definitive Miss Marple.
Geraldine McEwan was my favorite Miss Marple of the television series. Her portrayal of Miss Marple brought vitality to the character, which Joan Hickson's characterization never achieved.
She was my favorite, too.
Simply the best Miss Marble ever.
'Marple'
It is, of course, just possible that Geraldine McEwan stopping filming Miss Marple cos there were no more Agatha Christie Miss Marple books to film.
Yes, that what I thought. They started to stick her in other Christie stories, but that didn't go as well.
That's not true. They were spacing out the Marple books beginning in season 2, with four still left to film after season 3 had concluded (plus countless Marple short stories that could be expanded).
My hunch is that iTV had originally planned for only 3 seasons (i.e. 4 Marple novels per season = 12 total), and McEwan presumably signed on for those 3 seasons, thinking that it would keep her busy for a few years (to help her with her grief) and, well, that would be the end of it... but the series, of course, had a highly successful first season, so by season 2 the writing was on the wall that there would be several more seasons than she had anticipated, continuing into her 80s, and so the undertaking would be massive. Being the lead actor in four feature-length films every ~12-18 months is no mean feat, especially at that age. So that's why she ended it at season 3, as she always had intended, although the injury would have made the decision easier.
I love the Mapp and Lucia books and Geraldine was stunning in the role. I also found her a great Agatha Christie - clever and playful.
Geraldine is my all time favourite Marple. I have loved her in everything ive seen her in but her Marple is by far the best in my opinion
OMGOSH Thank You for doing this tribute to Geraldine McEwan. I absolutely loved her as Miss Marple!! She made me a fan of Agatha Christie ( and David Suchet as Poirot ). I have a hard time watching Agatha Christie’s without either of them.
Thank you, Diana, my pleasure!
Yes! McEwan and Suchet *ARE* Marple and Poirot.
I love her portrayal of Miss Marple. Shame some of her episodes suffered bad and wobbly writing, but many of the them were actually great
This was a lovely tribute, thank you.
Thank you for giving this tribute to Geraldine, I lake her Miss Marple, I imagene the character just like her.
When I hear the audio books, it's like a film playing in my head, and it's Geraldine McEwan who positively springs into vision. Her version, in looks and portrayal, is just as described in the stories.
It's just a shame scripts don't follow the books more closely.
McEwan starred with Reese Witherspoon in Vanity Fair - enjoyed watching your tribute to Geraldine.
It was Geraldine's Miss Marple that got me watching and liking that character. Thank you so much for a pleasant video about this talented actress. She lived a lucky and amazing life utilizing her talent to the fullest. Your accent is so nice to listen to throughout the video. 🙂
Thank you for saying that, @stardustceiling
My favorite Miss Marple!!! She is the iconic sleuths
She was a great Lucia. ❤
You are totally correct, she was Lucia, full-stop.
Geraldine McEwan was sublime. I can see why she and Maggie Smith drew comparisons- but their unique qualities outnumber their similarities.
No one but Geraldine could capture Mrs. Proudy so well (Barchester Chronicles): the tempered steel and haughtiness lit with flashes of sweetness. Thanks for the tribute😃.
Yes, loved her in Barchester Chronicles with Alan Rickman as the crafty Reverend Obadiah Slope.
My favorite Miss Marple! Absolute favorite.
I've watched Miss Marple played by different actresses, and they were all good. But watching Miss McEwen I think she is wonderful in the part. Of all the different actresses. I like her best. She's nailed the part and is Miss Marple.
Geraldine McEwen was my perfect Miss Marple! Joan Hickson never appealed to me (and I don't even consider the other two). You could imagine people opening up to Geraldine and sharing gossip and secrets. Not Joan - too strait-laced, too sensible. It made sense for Geraldine's Miss Marple to be inquisitive and adventurous and somehow able to get herself involved in other people's mysteries.
I loved Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple. Also in Mulberry. She was amazing.
My favorite Marple.
A very fine actress and the best Miss Marple with that twinkle in her eye😍😍
Don't care why, just glad she did. I found her to be very snarky and not at all like Miss Marple.
Yes she seemed smug
A much loved and much missed human being.
Crisp,intelligent and kind but very accessible to an audience prepared to go along with characters she managed to conjur
e up!!!
'Mapp and Lucia' probably shows her at her sharpest most impish best and it still stands the test of time! I do miss her.
She was always my number 1 Miss Marple, followed by Julia McKenzie. Of course the 4 movies with Margeret Rutherford are also epic, and unique in their own interpretation.
I have first saw Miss McEwan's work when she played Miss Jean Brodie in STV's 'The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie', her performance as Jean Brodie has never left me, a beautiful series, for me personally she will always be Miss Jean Brodie.
We only watch Geraldine McEwan in Miss Marple. No one else is the same!
I guess, that's the beauty of this series - one can find Miss Marple of his own (or, for the mood of the day, why not)
A truly wonderful miss Marple 💜
Mapp and Lucia was so good! (sigh) And she was perfect.
Wonderful in Mapp & Lucia and I do like her as Miss Marple!
Hi dear. In my mind there is no other Marple than Geraldine MscEwan...she was stunning at every age of her life. I have watched all her episodes if Marple at least 5 times. Once I start I cannot atop. Thank you for giving such beautiful incite into the life of this amazing woman. When I read she had died, I cried even though it happened a few years ago. She played a great hag too....I will hold her memory dear. Thank you again.
thank you for taking time to write this, Bernadette!
thanks for answering my question as to whether she is still living.
You don't talk about how brilliant she was as Lucia
Best Marple ever!! I'm still stumped as to why they chose Julia McKenzie afterwards
Because she is a good actress and i preferred her portrayal of miss marple. although I thought each actress brought something to the role
I loved McEwan as ms Marple & I can feel that sweetness in some of the written books, such as The Body in the Library, and Murder in the Vicarage. All that knitting 🧶 baby clothes, etc… not a hard person at all, IMO ❤!
Tnxs for the ❤️! Lost 😞 the heart ❤️ as the spelling mistake of “Markle” instead of “Marple” absolutely HAD to be corrected… LOL 😆 but tnxs all the same!
I like Geraldine's acting. Maybe I don't see her as perfect a Miss Marple as Joan Hickson, but whenever I get caught up in that, I just think that I'm watching "Miss Maple" instead of Miss Marple, and then it's all good! and I can enjoy her for herself. :)
Oh, I like her so much better then Joan Hickson! Joan Hickson comes across as stern and savvy, but Miss Marple is supposed to be an assuming, cute little old lady. I think McEwen embodies her so well!
For my money, Joan Hickson sounds forward and prickly, far too sure of herself, whereas Miss Marple is described by the author as modest, unassuming, benign, with a brilliant mind given to quietly analysing everyone and everything with an uncanny instinct for homing in on the answer to every riddle that comes her way.
I think Miss McEwan is on a par with each distinguishing actress that has played Miss Marple.
And, her onscreen partnership with Dame Joanna Lumley is possibly the best Marple pairing.
Mapp and Lucia is probably one of the best tv adaptations ever. The whole cast being incredible. Perfection.
Geraldine was my most favourite Miss Marple. Simply the best!
I agree! She is the actress most like Agatha Christie described the character, fluffy and inconspicuous with a twinkle in her eye. A spot-on portrayal!
Buonasera
La Signora Geraldine McEwan , è sorprendentemente brava come attrice , una persona umile e sensibile . La sua
Recitazione è personale e incantevole , mai fuori posto , una recitazione intrigante che cattura la scena . Una Signora e persona adorabile . Grazie per questo contributo , il suo ricordo farà si che sia sempre ricordata con tanto Affetto .
Almeno per me 🤗☺
grazie mille!
Wonderful actress, superb in Mapp and Lucia, and, I think, a better Miss Jean Brodie. Not sure why you say she has a baby voice - her voice has a wide range, but is rather deep - and unmistakable.
Thank you for this. What an interesting woman. I have to admit that I couldn't stand her Miss Marple but I loved her in 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' and most highly recommend this series if it is still available on DVD. God Bless and may she rest in peace.
She is my favorite Miss Marple and recently I have been able to see other roles she took on in television.
I love your Miss Marple videos. Would it be an idea sometime make one about actress Helen Hayes as Marple too? Never mind: Keep up the good work! 🥇
I'll try!
Loved her in mulberry. Best miss Marple Great voice.
My favorite Miss Marple loved her
Such a great person ❤
very enjoyable overview. no scandal....but such twinkle.
My most enjoyable Miss Marple. I listened to audiobooks, then when i watched Nemesis, i thought, yep thats Miss Marple. Never looked back. Loved her cardigan.😅
I always liked Ms Marple because she was a spinster (like me) and not at all nice. She knew human nature and wasn’t taken in. Ms McEwan was different, more of the sweet old lady. I enjoyed it but missed my harder Ms Marple.
*Miss
@@francisheperi4180 yes of course miss, I just always refer to women as Ms.
She and Julia McKenzie are my favorites. Others have always been dull. Same goes for David Suchet as Poirot. Even Kenneth Branagh couldn't get close to his performance.
I felt Julia McKenzie was miscast as Miss Marple.
She exelled in looking kind and low key scary at the same time.
She is, by far, my preferred Miss Marple.
Yes she’s my favourite.
20:59 I admire her even more
I like her as an actress but Joan Hickson might be the closest what Miss Marple would be in my mind but her approach is quite refreshing, but she is the mischievous Marple and Joan is the cannon
Joan Hickson was the best Miss Marple. Geraldine McEwan was the best and only true Lucia and Mrs. Proudie from Barchester Chronicles.
Geraldine McEwan had an etheral yet pointed acting style and her "Miss Marple" was most engaging for me, irrespective of the series style and a little too full of well known TV stars + actors otherwise... I actually found her Marple less formal, more realistic, albeit a quirky to almost eccentric everyday Country Village elderly spinster. Her slight build etc contrasted the character's sleuth mind and her playful wit brought about familiarity... She would've been a marvellous large screen Marple, though her wardrobe would've required a bit more tweed etc but that's also why she embodied a different Marple too, as she looked like an elderly old fashioned spinster living as a normal village resident in contrast her character's sleuthing magnificence.
I loved Geraldine in the series "The Prime of Miss Jane Brodie". We also liked Maggie Smith in the movie. But "little guhles" was a slogan in our two daughter's household with as much of a British Accent as we could manage.
She was the best Miss Marple.
BRAVOOOOO!!!!
My favourite Miss Marple
It's a pity she was not cast as Miss Silver, as created by Patricia Wentworth instead of Miss Marple. I don't think the Miss Silver character has ever been dramatised.
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Geraldine McEwan was far and away the best Marple. I am so sorry she didn't do more of them. She infused the character with a genial humanity and intelligence that went a long ways towards explaining why her character could look at people and situations and see them so clearly. So I'm assuming she had that in her as well. Great breadth of acting talent as well when you consider her humane, gentle work in Miss Marple beside her over the top , tour de force work in Mapp and Lucia.
I thought that was really well done I adore Angela Lansbury but for Miss Marple I really like Geraldine because of her likeness and her sort of mischievous look that sort of how I would identify if I had her ability to act in such a fashion
Most of us Americans don’t know Dirk Bogarde. He played young attractive men with long-suffering souls. Imagine having tea with Dirk and Geraldine! ❤
I thought Geraldine was the best Miss Marple. Cheers Rosemary Western Australia 73yrs
Cassandra in Red Dwarf!!!
I found her too twee. To self-conscious. "Look at me! I'm old, but my eyes still can still twinkle, just looknow!!!" Bad direction, I guess. Brilliant in Mapp and Lucia.
Im sorry Margaret Rutherford will always be my Miss Marple 🕯️🌹🌹✌️✌️
I don't look ke her as much as Joan Hickson's, her Miss Marple always seems to have a smirking, sardonic look. I prefer Joan's sweeter, gentler exterior with a sharp mind underneath.
McEwan and Hickson are my 2 favorite Marples. Altho different from each other, and I must give the nod of faithfulness to the books to Hickson, I did find McEwan's twinkle to be engaging and refreshing. Also, I never realized the roles she played in other movies (Henry V and Robin Hood), even tho when I saw those films, her characters (brief as the roles were) stood out memorably.
I never enjoyed the Americanization of Marple by Lansbury. And I can't abide the bluster of Margaret Rutherford stomping about and mugging for the camera. Those films are, IMO, totally unwatchable.
Even Agatha Christie said Joan Hickson ‘was’ Miss Marple. I didn’t care for Ms McEwan as Miss Marple and the characters in Mapp And Lucia were both insufferable. Different strokes for different folks. 😊
That should be Hickson! Bad spell checker!
Having read all the Miss Marple books, Geraldine McEwan is not my idea of Marple. McEwan is a good actress, but I feel she was miscast. To me, Joan Hickson is the most like Miss Marple in Christie novels.
She could never replace Joan Hickson in my eyes. Even preferred Margaret Rutherford to her.Geraldine just seemed too phoney for me.
I loved her as the Bishops wife mrs Proudie in Barchester Chronicles . Great in Mapp and Lucia but just not right as Miss Marple. No gravitas. Came across as a birdlike busybody . Mackenzie was closer . Hickson was the best
It's not an unusual take, I would have thought jost good actors do it firstly because they enjoy it
It's very curious my feelings about McEwan's depiction of Miss Marple. I most certainly like the actress and her style in other roles. But I can't stand her in the role of Miss Marple. I tried to watch it a couple of times and it was her scenes that made me stop watching it. There are stellar actors in the whole show and the production is perfect, but she ruins it for me. I could say it's the modernisation of her that I dislike, but I actually like the Margaret Rutherford depiction also, Magaret Rutherford is NOTHING like the book character, but I forgave her. It's a shame really. I think it would have been pleasant to watch had they taken a different path with Marple's character. So I'm glad she's not doing it any more. In my opinion and also in Agatha Christie's opinion Joan Hickson is the closest to the book character, she conveys the sharp intellect and complex relationships with the police, a slight irritation and disrespect which grows into more of a Sherlock Holmes regard. So I don't agree with your preference for her in the role. Each to their own though. Ha! speaking of Kenneth Brannagh, he is also destroying Agatha Christie works. I saw his Murder on the Orient express with the much beloved Johnny Depp. Again wrong wrong. Perhaps the latest one he's done. I read the story about the seance, but I think he's made it more interesting, I hope so.
I mostly agree with you, really. However, I've never said that I prefer her to others, just that I find things that I like in her portrayal too
@@marina_via oh I'm sorry I missunderstood that then. I do like her as an actress. It was a very well made show and I'm sure many enjoyed it immensely, just not me.
I'm pleased she turned down honours.
not an average gesture, agree
For me, no one will ever touch Joans portrayal. But I think I would have like Geraldines a bit more if not for the flavor of the show itself. It was just too contemporary, too 'perky'. It and Geraldine reminded me more of Murder She Wrote than any of Christie's books. But for people who never read or aren't interested in reading Christie, I would probably recommend Geraldine. As for fellow readers, its Joan, 100%. I will never get tired of re-watching Joan as Miss Marple
Joan Nixon was and is Miss Marple.
Do you mean Joan Hickson
I think she was the worst Miss Marple.
Excellent actress but Joan Hickson was for me the best Miss Marple.
i absolutely hated this version of miss marple. in fact, of the entire series. totally ruined the books. the best miss marple i ever saw on british tv was joan hickson.
Joan Hickson is my favorite too
I think of Geraldines version as the fast food sundae of Miss Marples; very sweet, very accessible and enjoyable for a wider (or younger) audience. Joan was a sit-down dinner in a quiet restaurant, with some bitter cocoa at the end
Joan Hickson was not my favourite Miss Marple, her voice too sharo, too businesslike, too headmistressy, not at all as the author described her.
@@pamelacorbett8774 She was actually Agatha Christie's choice as Miss Marple. The authors stamp of approval was there for years before she actually took on the role. She wrote to Joan "I hope one day you will play my dear Miss Marple". So you might not have read her that way, but Christie definitely wrote her that way. Which is okay, because all good art is open to interpretation☺
She's my favorite. I like her backstory.
This narrator sounds slightly loopy. And why call Anna Massey Anna Macy?
I liked Joan Hobson best. The others are or were wonderful actresses yet lacked the quiet
dignity and subtle nuances of Ms. Hobsons performances as Miss Marple.
Joan Hickson?
Mapping and Lu😢cia was wonderful. As miss marple she played it brilliantly, but it was all wrong. Ridiculous back story, ludicrous scripts.
Ummmmm she’s my least favourite when I think. Of miss marple I don’t think of THIS ONE at all……she didn’t capture the miss marble in the books. I’m gonna guess most here didn’t and doesn’t read the actual BOOKS……
I don't like Geraldine's Miss Marple, she makes Miss Marple appear to be a spiteful busybody . Whereas Joan Hickson , her interpretation feels right. I would trust her Miss Marple to tell her any problems I may have. This is not to say that Geraldine isn't a good actress, just me expressing my preference
once, someone criticized me, calling me Ms. Marple as an insult, and I smiled and said thank you so much!!!!!