The second series of the show, airing in 2010, included The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, The Secret of Chimneys, The Blue Geranium, and The Pale Horse. But they’re both genuine." Also, she said: "Just about everybody in the world knows about Miss Marple and has an opinion of what she should be like, so I’m under no illusions about the size of the task ahead." McKenzie's first series of Marple comprises A Pocket Full of Rye, Murder is Easy, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, and They Do It with Mirrors. A lot of people say they don’t like the tweedier version. McKenzie noted: "It’s difficult because Agatha Christie wrote her in two ways.First, very much what Geraldine McEwan played: a slight, rather Victorian creature. In 2008 she was announced as the replacement for Geraldine McEwan as ITV’s Miss Marple. Forrester, a military widow of slender means, very attached to her cow Bessie. In 2007 she co-starred with Michael Gambon and Judi Dench in the BBC1 costume drama series Cranford, playing Mrs. In 2007 she was reunited with Anton Rodgers (again as a husband and wife team) in the ITV comedy You Can Choose Your Friends. Film credits include Hotel du Lac, Shirley Valentine, Bright Young Things and These Foolish Things. She also appeared as Mrs Forthby in Blott on the Landscape and as a Midsomer villager involved in a series of murders in an episode of Midsomer Murders. She went on to greater popularity with British viewers as Hester in Fresh Fields and the sequel French Fields in the 1980s opposite Anton Rodgers, for which she was voted TV Times Favourite Female Comedy Performance for five consecutive years. On television, McKenzie co-starred with Irene Handl in the sitcom Maggie and Her (1978–79), and with Gareth Hunt in That Beryl Marston.! (1981). McKenzie appeared in a National Theatre 80th birthday tribute to Lord Olivier, Happy Birthday, Sir Larry on in the presence of Olivier himself. She has also appeared in Follies as Sally at the Shaftesbury Theatre in 1987 and Into the Woods as the Witch at the Phoenix Theatre in 1990. She appeared in Side By Side By Sondheim in the West End in 1976 and on Broadway in 1977, and was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for her performance. Lovett (1994), winning the Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in a Musical for each.įor her role in Woman in Mind, she received the Evening Standard Award for Best Actress. In London's West End her performing credits include Guys and Dolls as Miss Adelaide (1982) and Sweeney Todd as Mrs. Overall great story but poorly told and portrayed.She was born Julia Kathleen McKenzie on 17 February 1938, in Enfield, Middlesex, England, the daughter of Kathleen Rowe and Albion McKenzie. A good film would have clues distributed evenly before the big reveal. Sadly a few Poirot episodes have followed the same trend with little revealed throughout and a hasty summary at the end. The audience is wondering how we jumped from A to Z. You have close to nothing revealed in 3/4 of the film and then a big complex story with no backstory is given quickly to close the case. The story was told so badly that it was hard to follow in its entirety. However the film adaptation was poorly executed. This story is so intriguing and remarkable that perhaps adding action and thriller on a bigger scale would be worthy of a James Bond film. However digging deeper you find the true head of the scheme who is a figure in the dark that actually executes these murders carefully and disguising murder as natural causes. Dig deeper and you see a non practicing lawyer taking bets for predicting the deaths and the owner of the Pale Horse Inn also collecting money for the witchcraft. Witchcraft was the supposed centre and cause for many so called natural deaths. We saw an elaborate scheme or set up that was almost fool proof. It is a story that is on another level and more than just a motive by one of the characters. The Pale Horse mystery by Agatha Christie is arguably one of her best stories.
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