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2. Awards. Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play. 1979 Bedroom Farce. Joan Bogle Hickson OBE (5 August 1906 – 17 October 1998) was an English actress of theatre, film and television. She was known for her role as Agatha Christie 's Miss Marple in the television series Miss Marple. She also narrated a number of Miss ...
Miss Marple. (TV series) Miss Marple, titled Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the series, is a British television series based on the Miss Marple murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie, starring Joan Hickson in the title role. It aired from 26 December 1984 to 27 December 1992 on BBC1.
As well as portraying Miss Marple on television, Hickson narrated Miss Marple stories for audio books. In the "Binge!" article of Entertainment Weekly Issue #1343–1344 (26 December 2014 – 3 January 2015), the writers picked Hickson as "Best Marple" in the "Hercule Poirot & Miss Marple" timeline. [31] Listing of the TV series featuring Joan ...
The Body in the Library (film) The Body in the Library. (film) The Body in the Library is a 3-part 1984 television film adaptation of Agatha Christie 's 1942 detective novel The Body in the Library, which was co-produced by the BBC and the A&E Network. The film uses an adapted screenplay by T. R. Bowen and was directed by Silvio Narizzano. [1]
Ordeal by Innocence (titled on-screen as Agatha Christie's Ordeal by Innocence) is a three-part television drama series that was first broadcast in April 2018 on BBC One. It is based on the Agatha Christie novel of the same name and is the third English-language filmed version to be broadcast. The drama stars Morven Christie, Bill Nighy, Anna ...
Christie was so taken with her performance that she wrote to Hickson and stated that she hoped she would one day play the character of Miss Marple. [3] Hickson was later cast in this role in 1984 in the BBC television series. The adaptation of the book is notable for being one of the most radical reworkings of a novel Christie ever did, not ...
256 (first edition, hardback) Preceded by. The Pale Horse. Followed by. The Clocks. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, a novel by Agatha Christie, was published in the UK in 1962 [1][2] and a year later in the US under the title The Mirror Crack'd. [3] The story features amateur detective Miss Marple solving a mystery in St. Mary Mead.
A Murder Is Announced is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in June 1950 [1] and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in the same month. [2][3] The UK edition sold for eight shillings and sixpence (8/6) [1] and the US edition at $2.50. [3] The novel features her detective Jane Marple.