Margaret Rutherford Biography

Date of birth: May 11 of the year. Date of death: May 22. Full name: Margaret Rutherford Margaret Rutherford. The British actress has an Oscar. Surprisingly, the fate of Margaret Rutherford is sometimes a surname is written as Rutherford. She came to the acting profession too late, tried to succeed as a dramatic actress, but gained recognition as an actress of a comedic. Margaret was the only child in the unfortunate family of William Benn and his wife Florence.

Even in infancy, Margaret left with her parents from London to India, but soon her pregnant mother hanged herself on a tree, and a three -year -old girl gets to her aunt Bessi Nicholson, a professional governess in British Wimbledon. As for his father, he, who suffered from nervous breakdowns, killed his father with a night pot on March 4 of the year, and then tried to cut his throat with a foam knife, and being released from a crazy house changed his name to Rutherford, but a mental illness again made itself felt and he again ended up in a medical institution, where he died in a year.

After graduation, Margaret Rutherford worked in Wimbledon as a teacher of oratory art. Only at 33, she goes to the stage of the London Theater Old Vic. Her appearance itself, like the appearance of the Seraphim of Burman, determined her role as a comedic actress. However, she herself will later say: “I have never played for the sake of laughter. I was always surprised that the audience found me funny.

" In the year, she receives roles in the London West End, but her talent is recognized after the role of Miss Prism in the play “How important it is to be serious” by the Globe Theater of the year. In the year, the English playwright Noel Kauard put a “restless spirit” in Piccadilly Theater, in which Rutherford played the role of Madame Arkati specially written for her. Margaret begins to appear not only in theatrical productions, but also in the cinema since the middle of the X, trying not to dwell on the heroines of the same type.

Her last performance took place in the year in the Opponents based on the play by Richard Sheridan along with Ralph Richardson. Unfortunately, due to deteriorated health, in a few weeks, she had to abandon this role. As we have already mentioned, her film defenses took place in the year, but real success came after the role in the "restless spirit" of the year. Some of her theatrical roles also switched to film, for example, the role of Miss Prism in the film of the year "How important it is to be serious." Of course, she also played comedic roles in which she was recognized as a real master.

In the beginning of the x, she starred in a series of four films and began to be firmly associated with the image of Miss Jane Marpl according to Agatha Christie’s novels. Miss Margl performed by Margaret Rutherford was a comedic and very living character, which is why the author of detective novels was against such an interpretation. However, subsequently Christy devoted to the actress the novel “And, having cracked, the mirror rings with Elizaber Taylor and Richard Bertonov in the film“ Very important persons ”, in the year she is nominated for the Golden Globe Award and the prize of the American Academy“ Oscar ”for the role of the second plan.

And he receives both awards. Her state awards did not bypass her. In the year, she was awarded the Order of the British Empire and the title of commander, and in the year her title rises to a lady-commander with the right of chivalry. Margaret Rutherford was happy in marriage with actor Stringer Davis, who married a year. One of Davis’s friends once said: “For him, she was not only a huge talent, but, first of all, a beauty.” Rutherford and Davis rarely parted, together they took part in many projects.

Margaret suffered from bouts of depression, often lying in psychiatric medical workers, underwent a course of treatment with an electric shock, all this was thoroughly hidden from the press. And always Stringer was nearby, looked after her. There was Stringer next to her and when at the end of her life she had a seriously ill disease of Alzheimer's disease and was no longer able to work.

Margaret Rutherford died on May 22 at the age of 80. Davis, who died after 15 months, was buried next to his wife in the county of Buckingmashir.