"The Lady Vanishes (1979 film) The Lady Vanishes is a 1979 British comedy mystery film directed by Anthony Page. Its screenplay by George Axelrod was based on the novel ""The Wheel Spins"" by Ethel Lina White (1876–1944). It stars Elliott Gould as Robert, Cybill Shepherd as Amanda (Iris), Angela Lansbury as Miss Froy, Herbert Lom, and Arthur Lowe and Ian Carmichael as Charters and Caldicott. The film is a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 film of the same name. The film follows two Americans travelling by train across 1939 Germany. Together, they investigate the mysterious disappearance of an English nanny"
"in 1950). She lived her final years in seclusion in Kingston upon Thames, dying at the Cromwell Hospital, Kensington, London, from cirrhosis of the liver, aged 73. Her body was cremated at Putney Vale Crematorium. She was survived by her daughter, the actress Julia Lockwood (née Margaret Julia Leon, born 1941). Various polls of exhibitors consistently listed Lockwood among the most popular stars of her era: Margaret Lockwood Margaret Lockwood, CBE (15 September 1916 – 15 July 1990), was an English actress. One of Britain's most popular film stars of the 1930s and 1940s, her film appearances included ""The Lady"
"Margaret Lockwood Margaret Lockwood, CBE (15 September 1916 – 15 July 1990), was an English actress. One of Britain's most popular film stars of the 1930s and 1940s, her film appearances included ""The Lady Vanishes"" (1938), ""Night Train to Munich"" (1940), ""The Man in Grey"" (1943), and ""The Wicked Lady"" (1945). She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress for the 1955 film ""Cast a Dark Shadow"". She also starred in the television series ""Justice"" (1971–74) Margaret Mary Day Lockwood was born on 15 September 1916 in Karachi, British India, to Henry Francis Lockwood, an English administrator"
"and directed by John Baxter. This film was included as a bonus feature on the Criterion DVD and Blu-ray release of ""The Lady Vanishes"". The last film to feature the Charters and Caldicott characters was ""Millions Like Us"" (1943), which was once again written by Gilliat and Launder, who also assumed the role of directors. Hitchcock had nothing to do with any of these films, and had moved to Hollywood by the time they went into production. The Lady Vanishes The Lady Vanishes is a 1938 British mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave."
"The Lady Vanishes The Lady Vanishes is a 1938 British mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave. Written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder based on the 1936 novel ""The Wheel Spins"" by Ethel Lina White, the film is about a beautiful English tourist travelling by train in continental Europe who discovers that her elderly travelling companion seems to have disappeared from the train. After her fellow passengers deny ever having seen the elderly lady, the young woman is helped by a young musicologist, the two proceeding to search the train for clues to"
"complete the adventure on his own. The characters Charters and Caldicott made a re-appearance in the Hammer films' 1979 remake of ""The Lady Vanishes"", with Arthur Lowe as Charters and Ian Carmichael as Caldicott. In the BBC's 2013 telemovie of ""The Lady Vanishes"", Charters and Caldicott do not appear. They were somewhat replaced by the elderly female duo, Evelyn and Rose Floodporter (Stephanie Cole and Gemma Jones). In 1985 they were the main characters in a BBC television series, ""Charters and Caldicott"" set in the modern day, with Michael Aldridge playing Caldicott and Robin Bailey as Charters. Charters and Caldicott"
"given the lead in ""Bank Holiday"", directed by Carol Reed and produced by Black. This movie was a hit and launched Lockwood as a star. Even more popular was her next movie, ""The Lady Vanishes"", directed by Alfred Hitchcock, produced by Black and co-starring Michael Redgrave. Hitchcock was greatly impressed by Lockwood, telling the press: She has an undoubted gift in expressing her beauty in terms of emotion, which is exceptionally well suited to the camera. Allied to this is the fact that she photographs more than normally easily, and has an extraordinary insight in getting the feel of her"
"Out"" magazine saw it ranked the 31st best British film ever. Having remained one of Hitchcock's most renowned British films, a remake (also titled ""The Lady Vanishes"") was released in 1979, and in March 2013 the BBC broadcast a TV adaptation starring Tuppence Middleton as Iris. Bill Kenwright has adapted the 1938 film to a stage version which will be on a national tour in 2019. The play stars husband and wife Juliet Mills and Maxwell Caulfield and Lorna Fitzgerald. English tourist Iris Henderson (Margaret Lockwood) arrives at the ""Gasthof Petrus"" inn in the country of Bandrika, ""one of Europe's"
"The Lady Vanishes (2013 film) The Lady Vanishes is a 2013 British television mystery thriller film directed by Diarmuid Lawrence, and a co-production of the BBC and Masterpiece Films. It is based on the novel ""The Wheel Spins"" by Ethel Lina White (1876–1944). It stars Selina Cadell in the key role of the disappearing Miss Froy, Tuppence Middleton as the young Iris Carr (who discovers the disappearance, but is not taken seriously), and Tom Hughes and Alex Jennings as Max Hare and the Professor, the two fellow English passengers who come to her aid. It was watched by 7.44 million"
"new and old. In the early years of the BBC, programmes were broadcast live and were generally not recorded. This, in addition to the BBC's policy of wiping that was applied during the 1950s and 1960s, means very few episodes from the first 20 years of the show are known to exist; the earliest episode still in existence is from 1951 and features actress Margaret Lockwood. Several extracts were preserved for posterity at the request of the guests, such as an extract featuring Alfred Hitchcock where he speaks about his films ""The Pleasure Garden"" (1925) and ""Rebecca"" (1940), gives his"
"apartment. Some people speculated that she had committed suicide, something Johnny angrily denied. Lockwood married again in 1980. His daughter Joanna Lockwood, born in Australia is an actress, best known for her long running role in television serial ""Cop Shop""; she also appeared briefly in ""Number 96"". Lockwood, a performer of 80 years, died on 25 April 2013 at a nursing home in Coffs Harbour, aged 92 Johnny Lockwood Johnny Lockwood (7 December 192025 April 2013) was an English-born Australian entertainer actor of theatre, television and film and also a comedy performer, possibly best known for his role in the"
"noting that ""I realised that it's not a show of today. It's a period piece."" Working prolifically in cinema, in 1979 Lansbury appeared as Miss Froy in ""The Lady Vanishes"", a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's famous 1938 film. The following year she appeared in ""The Mirror Crack'd"", another film based on an Agatha Christie novel, this time as Miss Marple, a sleuth in 1950s Kent. Lansbury hoped to get away from the depiction of the role made famous by Margaret Rutherford, instead returning to Christie's description of the character; in this she created a precursor to her later role of"
"recommendation of Frank Launder, who always admired the novel. Gainsborough announced the film in 1938 as part of a slate of 10 films. The stars were to be Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood who had just appeared in Gainsborough's ""The Lady Vanishes""; Will Fyffe was to co-star. In 1939 it was announced Gainsborough would make the film as a co-production with 20th Century Fox and that Lockwood would co-star with Richard Greene, under contract to Fox. Plans to make the film were postponed due to the war. The project was reactivated after the war and announced in 1947 with Frank"
"her great export items."" Early contenders for the title role included Geraldine Fitzgerald, Vivien Leigh and Merle Oberon. Later on Marlene Dietrich, Valerie Hobson and Linden Travers were mentioned. Donald Woods, then appearing in a stage version of ""Laura"", was a front-runner for the male lead. Eventually Margaret Lockwood was cast in the lead, with Ian Hunter and Barry Barnes in support. It was Barnes' first film since ""The Girl in the News"", also with Lockwood, and Hunter's first British film in 14 years. Jill Esmond, Laurence Olivier's first wife, was given a support role. The film was made with"
"a Dark Shadow"" and it had 'Dirk Bogarde in ""Cast a Dark Shadow""' and, at the very bottom, 'with Margaret Lockwood'. They altered the billing order because they saw it was dying and that, astoundingly, her name had killed it, though it was probably her best performance ever. ""I'm glad I did it, but am still wondering exactly where it got me,"" said Lockwood in 1973. After making the movie she did not appear in a feature film for another 21 years. ""Cast a Dark Shadow"" was given a DVD commercial release by Simply Media in June 2015 - nearly"
"camera operator Gary Spratling, Trott has only appeared sporadically on film and television since the 1980s. Judi Trott Judi Trott (born 11 November 1962) is an English actress and is best known for her portrayal of the Lady Marion of Leaford in the popular 1980s series ""Robin of Sherwood"". Trott was born in Plymouth and started her career as a ballet dancer, having attended the Royal Ballet School. She later trained as an actress at the London Studio Centre and landed her first acting role in ""Heaven's Gate"" (1980). In 2016, it was announced that Trott would reprise her role"
"in the vein of ""Lady Vanishes"" written expressly for her by Eric Ambler and directed by Roy Ward Baker. It was not popular. Rank was to put her in an adaptation of ""Ann Veronica"" by H. G. Wells but the film was postponed. She turned down the female lead in ""The Browning Version"", and a proposed sequel to ""The Wicked Lady"", ""The Wicked Lady's Daughter"", was never made. Eventually her contract with Rank ended and she played Eliza Doolittle in George Bernard Shaw's ""Pygmalion"" at the Edinburgh Festival of 1951. In 1952, Lockwood signed a two picture a year contract"
"setting are indicated only by lighting changes. Macbeth (1979 film) Macbeth is a 1979 videotaped version of Trevor Nunn's Royal Shakespeare Company production of the play by William Shakespeare. Produced by Thames Television, it features Ian McKellen as Macbeth and Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth. The TV version was directed by Philip Casson. The original stage production was performed at The Other Place, the RSC's small studio theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. It had been performed in the round before small audiences, with a bare stage and simple costuming. The recording preserves this style: the actors perform on a circular set and"
"Agatha (film) Agatha is a 1979 British drama thriller film directed by Michael Apted, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Dustin Hoffman and Timothy Dalton, and written by Kathleen Tynan. The ""Technovision"" film focuses on renowned crime writer Agatha Christie's famous 11-day disappearance in 1926. The film opens as Agatha Christie (Vanessa Redgrave) gets a silver cup engraved for her husband Archie (Timothy Dalton), who receives the gift with utter disdain. The couple walks to a publicity event for Agatha's new novel, ""The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"". They are tailed into the venue by American reporter Wally Stanton (Dustin Hoffman). The next morning,"
"on December 13, 1984, at age 89. Margaret Livingston Margaret Livingston (born Marguerite Livingston; November 25, 1895 – December 13, 1984) was an American film actress and businesswoman, most notable for her work during the silent film era. She was sometimes credited as Marguerite or Margaret Livingstone. She remains best known today as ""the Woman from the City"" in F.W. Murnau's 1927 film """". Livingston was born in Salt Lake City, Utah to John Livingston, a Scottish immigrant, and Eda Livingston (née Frome), from Stockholm, Sweden. She was raised in Salt Lake City along with her older sister, Ivy, who"
"as Ruth, Christine Ebersole as Elvira, Angela Lansbury as Madame Arcati and Simon Jones as Dr Bradman. ""The New York Times"" found the revival somewhat uneven, calling the opening performance ""bumpy"", but praised Lansbury's performance. Sharrock directed a revival of her production of the play, which started as a UK tour and then moved to the Apollo Theatre, London. It ran there from March to June 2011, with a cast including Robert Bathurst as Charles, Hermione Norris as Ruth, Ruthie Henshall as Elvira and Alison Steadman as Madame Arcati. A West End production, directed by Blakemore, opened at the Gielgud"
"Lockwood trying to marry a member of the British upper class and Communist agents trying to get Hepburn's character to return to the Soviet Union. The main story borrows heavily from Ernst Lubitsch's ""Ninotchka"" (1939), starring Greta Garbo, and very closely resembles Josef Von Sternberg's ""Jet Pilot"" with Janet Leigh as the Russian pilot and John Wayne as the US Air Force officer, which completed principal photography in 1950, but was not released until 1957, after ""The Iron Petticoat"". ""Jet Pilot"" was also inspired by real-life incidents of Cold War pilot defections. Captain Vinka Kovelenko (Katharine Hepburn) lands a Russian"
"Macbeth (1979 film) Macbeth is a 1979 videotaped version of Trevor Nunn's Royal Shakespeare Company production of the play by William Shakespeare. Produced by Thames Television, it features Ian McKellen as Macbeth and Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth. The TV version was directed by Philip Casson. The original stage production was performed at The Other Place, the RSC's small studio theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. It had been performed in the round before small audiences, with a bare stage and simple costuming. The recording preserves this style: the actors perform on a circular set and with a mostly black background; changes of"
"Michelle Dockery, Laura Carmichael and Maggie Smith, were confirmed to return as their characters from the series, with Joanne Froggatt confirming her involvement in a separate announcement. Actress Lily James, who played Lady Rose MacClare, stated she would not be reprising her role for the film, as did Ed Speleers who played footman James Kent. An August announcement indicated that newcomers Imelda Staunton, Geraldine James, Tuppence Middleton, Simon Jones, David Haig, Kate Phillips, and Stephen Campbell Moore would be among the cast of the film. Matthew Goode, who played Lady Mary's husband Henry Talbot in the final series, will appear"
"had taken over ownership of Gainsborough studios. In 1950 it was announced Arliss had written a sequel, ""The Wicked Lady's Daughter"" but it was never made. The Wicked Lady The Wicked Lady is a 1945 film directed by Leslie Arliss and starring Margaret Lockwood in the title role as a nobleman's wife who secretly becomes a highwayman for the excitement. The film has one of the top audiences ever for a film of its period, 18.4 million It was one of the Gainsborough melodramas, a sequence of very popular films made during the 1940s. The story was based on the"
"late veteran character actor and entertainer Johnny Lockwood. Joanna Lockwood Joanna Lockwood is an Australian actress who has played regular roles in various television series. After completing a brief stint in the closing episodes of soap opera ""Number 96"" in 1977, she played the ongoing lead role of police officer's wife and former stripper Valerie Johnson in police drama series ""Cop Shop"", which began on-air in late 1977. After leaving that series she played Diane Kennedy in the 1988 film ""To Make a Killing"", and had short-term on-going roles in soap opera ""Sons and Daughters"" in the mid-1980s and ""E"
"adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel ""The Witches"". She died in July 1997, a month after her 90th birthday. Rosamund Greenwood Rosamund Mary Greenwood (1907–1997) was a British actress who was active on screen from 1935 until 1990. After training at London's Central School, she was on stage from the late 1920s. Her theatre work included starring in the original West End and Broadway productions of Thornton Wilder's ""The Matchmaker"" in 1954-1957. In a career stretching 60 years, Greenwood's screen work included ""The Prince and the Showgirl"", ""Night of the Demon"", ""Upstairs, Downstairs"", ""Angels"", ""Crown Court"", and ""A Perfect Spy"". Her"
"same. Prithviraj Sukumaran plays Neil D'Costa (Tom Wingfield in the play), Geethu Mohandas plays Rosemary D'Costa (Laura Wingfield), Sheela plays Margaret D'Costa (Amanda Wingfield), and Tom George Kolath plays Freddy Evans (Jim O'Connor). Sheela won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress, and Geethu Mohandas won the Kerala State Film Award for the best actress. The Iranian film ""Here Without Me"" (2011) is also an adaptation of the play, in a contemporary Iranian setting. The first radio adaptation of the play was performed on ""Theatre Guild on the Air"" in 1951 starring Helen Hayes as Amanda with Montgomery Clift"
"on to star in the film version in 1973. The last of his plays in which she performed on stage was ""Old Times"" (1971) as Anna. She played Lady Macbeth to Paul Scofield's Macbeth for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967, directed by Sir Peter Hall. Merchant took the role of Madame in the Greenwich Theatre revival of Jean Genet's ""The Maids"" partnering Glenda Jackson and Susannah York: This was filmed in 1974 by Christopher Miles. In 1975, Merchant and Timothy Dalton headed the cast of a revival of Noël Coward's ""The Vortex"" at the Greenwich Theatre. Merchant was the"
"story that gives Margaret Lockwood a sympathetic role after her many ""Wicked Lady"" characterisations, in which she has been so successfully typed in the past"", adding, ""it may gratify the out-of-town popular audiences, but its chances of success in any metropolis are scant""; while more recently, ""TV Guide"" rated the film two out of five stars, dismissing it as a ""Ridiculous story played straight; as a farce it might have had some chance."" The film generally received poor reviews. Look Before You Love Look Before You Love is a 1948 British drama film directed by Harold Huth and starring Margaret"
"In 1969 she starred as barrister Julia Stanford in the TV play ""Justice is a Woman"". This inspired the Yorkshire Television series ""Justice"", which ran for three seasons (39 episodes) from 1971 to 1974, and featured her real-life partner, John Stone, as fictional boyfriend Dr Ian Moody. Lockwood's role as the feisty Harriet Peterson won her Best Actress Awards from the ""TV Times"" (1971) and ""The Sun"" (1973). In 1975, film director Bryan Forbes persuaded her out of an apparent retirement from feature films, to play the role of the Stepmother in what would be her last feature film, ""The"
"Slipper and the Rose"". This film also included the final feature film appearance of Edith Evans and one of the last film appearances of Kenneth More. Her last professional appearance was as Queen Alexandra in Royce Ryton's stage play ""Motherdear"" (Ambassadors Theatre, 1980). Margaret Lockwood was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1981 New Year Honours. She was the subject of ""This Is Your Life"" in December 1963. She was a guest on the British Broadcasting Corporation's radio show ""Desert Island Discs"" on 25 April 1951. Lockwood married Rupert Leon in 1937 (divorced"
"suggested they buy the rights to ""Night Train"" or ""The Lady Vanishes"". He ended up writing three different versions of ""The Lady Vanishes"" for ABC, but none was picked up. The rights then reverted to Rank Films, who asked Axelrod to work on the film. Among Axelrod's changes to the original were setting the new film in 1939 Germany, and altering the hero to a photographer from ""Life Magazine"" and the heroine to be a screwball ""rompy, Carole Lombard character."" The script was constantly rewritten as filming went along. George Segal and Ali MacGraw were originally announced for the leads."