Each time I play him, I discover hidden things I never thought of before, she enthused. Popular British leading lady of the late 1930s who became England's biggest female star of the WWII era. Lockwood discusses her upbringing in a Boston area Irish family and her early . I used to love her films. Sign up for BFI news, features, videos and podcasts. Her mother was Margaret Lockwood, raven-haired lead in the Gainsborough studio's period melodramas of the 1940s, including The Wicked Lady. It's all Marilyn Monroe's fault," singer Kelly Rowland told People. She had one last film role, as the stepmother with the sobriquet, wicked, omitted but implied, in Bryan Forbess Cinderella musical The Slipper and the Rose in 1976. In the 1960s and 70s she appeared on British television, including a 1965 series The Flying Swan with her daughter Julia. She was best known for her roles in The Lady Vanishes (1938) and The Wicked Lady (1945) but also enjoyed a successful stage and television career. They were going to look after me as no one else had done before. Her final stage appearance, as Queen Alexandra in Motherdear, ran for only six weeks at the Ambassadors Theatre in 1980. It was one of a series of films made by Gaumont aimed at the US market. She also starred in the television series Justice (197174). Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 4 Reception Margaret Lockwood, 73, Is Dead; A Popular Actress in British Films All rights reserved. Her last professional appearance was as Queen Alexandra in Royce Ryton's stage play Motherdear (Ambassadors Theatre, 1980). Due to the success of the film, Margaret spent some time in Hollywood but was given poor material and soon returned home. In 1944, in A Place of Ones Own, she added one further attribute to her armoury: a beauty spot painted high on her left cheek. [34] then went off suspension when she made a comedy for Corfield and Huth, Look Before You Love (1948). During her suspension she went on a publicity tour for Rank. From the books you read to the clothes you wear, there are plenty of ways to make a political statement. Was a committed teetotaller all her life and detested the taste of Samuel Pepys, who originally prohibited his wife from wearing one, had a change of heart. had a bit part in the Drury Lane production of "Cavalcade" in 1932, Margaret Lockwood (1916-1990) was Britain's number one box office star during the war years. Julia Lockwood obituary | Theatre | The Guardian "[22], In September 1943 Variety estimated her salary at being US$24,000 per picture (equivalent to $305,000 in 2021).[23]. "[46], The association began well with Trent's Last Case (1952) with Michael Wilding and Orson Welles which was popular. The couple had a daughter, Julia Lockwood. Madeleine Marshtold BBC that it wasn't untilHollywood came to be that moles transformed from something to be abhorred to something to be admired. "[50], As her popularity waned in the post war years, she returned to occasional performances on the West End stage and appeared on television; her television debut was in 1948 when she played Eliza Doolittle.[51]. Those with beauty marks in the 1800s would've likely felt anything but beautiful during a time when skin whitening recipes promising to "take away" freckles and moles were abundant. [43], Eventually her contract with Rank ended and she played Eliza Doolittle in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion at the Edinburgh Festival of 1951.

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