Thank you for this tribute. Geraldine McEwan is one of my all time favorites. I have seen Mapp and Lucia and laughed myself silly. Being very fond of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, I found Geraldine to be the best and most alive and interesting Miss Marple of all. In so many of the rolls she played, the twinkle in her eye gave me a feeling that mirth was a guiding light in her soul...and, always, she exuded composure and eccentricity...what a combination of traits! I loved her dearly.

Loved all the Marples. Each uniquely rendered and aren’t we fortunate to have them available through the decades. Love them all.

She was my favourite Miss Marple, she just embodied the part. Yes, others do it well but she was just ‘it’. Just like David Suchet , he ‘was’ Hercule Poirot. Bless her, she lost her hubby just before me. I so know how she felt , the loss never goes away. Bless her, a wonderful woman. 🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺

Along with Prunella Scales, Geraldine McEwan made "Mapp and Lucia" a delight, and watching her delightful interpretation of Agatha Christie's sleuth got me to appreciate Miss Marple.

I still watch her, Miss Marple❤

For me, she is just like the Miss Marple I envisage when I read Agatha Christie. I know that Christie saw Joan Hickson as being more like her character, but for me, Geraldine is the epitome of Miss Marple, and Joan H. is nothing like I imagine...

A very fine actress and the best Miss Marple with that twinkle in her eye😍😍

When I hear the audio books, it's like a film playing in my head, and it's Geraldine McEwan who positively springs into vision. Her version, in looks and portrayal, is just as described in the stories. It's just a shame scripts don't follow the books more closely.

No one ever mentions the 2 season series Geraldine McEwan did called Mulberry. I adored it and was very sad it was cancelled.

Wonderful mini documentary! One thing you failed to mention, possibly because of the limited time at your disposal, but her appearance in the Barchester Chronicles with her co-star from Mapp and Lucia was luminous. 😊

Geraldine McEwan was my favorite Miss Marple of the television series. Her portrayal of Miss Marple brought vitality to the character, which Joan Hickson's characterization never achieved.

Thank you for a wonderful video on Geraldine McEwan’s acting career, especially on our favourite Miss Marple series that I am still enjoying today! Cheers! 👏🏻👏🏻🥰🧑🏻‍🦰🇨🇦

I love the Mapp and Lucia books and Geraldine was stunning in the role. I also found her a great Agatha Christie - clever and playful.

Geraldine is my all time favourite Marple. I have loved her in everything ive seen her in but her Marple is by far the best in my opinion

Simply the best Miss Marble ever.

Always love your tributes, thank you😘 There were only 2 Miss Marples worth watching - Joan Hickson and Geraldine McEwan, each wonderful in their own way

I absolutely love her! It was such a privilege to meet her (and Richard Briers) when they came to New York around the late '90's for the Ionesco play "The Chairs", they were wonderful in it. Rest in Peace.

Geraldine McEwan was sublime. I can see why she and Maggie Smith drew comparisons- but their unique qualities outnumber their similarities. No one but Geraldine could capture Mrs. Proudy so well (Barchester Chronicles): the tempered steel and haughtiness lit with flashes of sweetness. Thanks for the tribute😃.

Absolutely LOVED her. In Mapp and Lucia, and everything she did, priceless❤❤

OMGOSH Thank You for doing this tribute to Geraldine McEwan. I absolutely loved her as Miss Marple!! She made me a fan of Agatha Christie ( and David Suchet as Poirot ). I have a hard time watching Agatha Christie’s without either of them.

I loved her in Mapp and Lucia. She played a very good Jeab Brodie. Her parents were Scots so her accent was good for Ms Brodie. But , i am sorry Joan Hickson was the ultimate Miss Marple

It is, of course, just possible that Geraldine McEwan stopping filming Miss Marple cos there were no more Agatha Christie Miss Marple books to film.

Geraldine McEwen was my perfect Miss Marple! Joan Hickson never appealed to me (and I don't even consider the other two). You could imagine people opening up to Geraldine and sharing gossip and secrets. Not Joan - too strait-laced, too sensible. It made sense for Geraldine's Miss Marple to be inquisitive and adventurous and somehow able to get herself involved in other people's mysteries.

Hi dear. In my mind there is no other Marple than Geraldine MscEwan...she was stunning at every age of her life. I have watched all her episodes if Marple at least 5 times. Once I start I cannot atop. Thank you for giving such beautiful incite into the life of this amazing woman. When I read she had died, I cried even though it happened a few years ago. She played a great hag too....I will hold her memory dear. Thank you again.

It was Geraldine's Miss Marple that got me watching and liking that character. Thank you so much for a pleasant video about this talented actress. She lived a lucky and amazing life utilizing her talent to the fullest. Your accent is so nice to listen to throughout the video. 🙂

My favorite Miss Marple!!! She is the iconic sleuths

Thank you for giving this tribute to Geraldine, I lake her Miss Marple, I imagene the character just like her.

I've watched Miss Marple played by different actresses, and they were all good. But watching Miss McEwen I think she is wonderful in the part. Of all the different actresses. I like her best. She's nailed the part and is Miss Marple.

We only watch Geraldine McEwan in Miss Marple. No one else is the same!

I very much enjoyed Geraldine McEwan's Miss Marple, and enjoy seeing the episodes many times over.

My favorite Miss Marple! Absolute favorite.

You are totally correct, she was Lucia, full-stop.

My favorite Marple.

For me she was the definitive Miss Marple and I loved those hats she wore.

also ı loved how she her Marple character was still in love with her boyfriend whom died at war. and she explained why she was single so on...

Geraldine was the best actress playing the part of miss marpel. I really enjoyed her programmes

Geraldine was my favorite! Not clownish, but nuanced, revealing a depth of character that makes her feel real.

Lovely tribute to a great actress. My favourite Miss Marple. Thank you.

Geraldine was my most favourite Miss Marple. Simply the best!

Geraldine McKuen was utterly adorable as Lucia. I like the later, briefer adaptation too, but Geraldine's performance was iconic, definitive, brilliant.

She was always my number 1 Miss Marple, followed by Julia McKenzie. Of course the 4 movies with Margeret Rutherford are also epic, and unique in their own interpretation.

Don't care why, just glad she did. I found her to be very snarky and not at all like Miss Marple.

I love her portrayal of Miss Marple. Shame some of her episodes suffered bad and wobbly writing, but many of the them were actually great

She was a great Lucia. ❤

I loved McEwan as ms Marple & I can feel that sweetness in some of the written books, such as The Body in the Library, and Murder in the Vicarage. All that knitting 🧶 baby clothes, etc… not a hard person at all, IMO ❤!

She is my favorite Miss Marple and recently I have been able to see other roles she took on in television.

Wonderful in Mapp & Lucia and I do like her as Miss Marple!

I loved Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple. Also in Mulberry. She was amazing.

She exelled in looking kind and low key scary at the same time.

Mapp and Lucia was so good! (sigh) And she was perfect.

She is, by far, my preferred Miss Marple.

A truly wonderful miss Marple 💜

I just loved her as Marple...and in anything for that matter. Esp. with Lumley. Both of them are just so fun together.

Geraldine's approach was very typical of British actors altogether, even now. So many are simply committed to their profession. They are really not interested in being American-style "celebrities". Secondly, they are deeply committed to the stage. Live theatre, not the screen.

A much loved and much missed human being. Crisp,intelligent and kind but very accessible to an audience prepared to go along with characters she managed to conjur e up!!! 'Mapp and Lucia' probably shows her at her sharpest most impish best and it still stands the test of time! I do miss her.

Well done.. more to come I see.

Wonderful actress, superb in Mapp and Lucia, and, I think, a better Miss Jean Brodie. Not sure why you say she has a baby voice - her voice has a wide range, but is rather deep - and unmistakable.

I like Geraldine's acting. Maybe I don't see her as perfect a Miss Marple as Joan Hickson, but whenever I get caught up in that, I just think that I'm watching "Miss Maple" instead of Miss Marple, and then it's all good! and I can enjoy her for herself. :)

I love Geraldine McEwan - The quintessential Ms Marple! . Was shocked by the age gap between her and her husband though. Very different times.

Great tribute indeed. Geraldine was my acting teacher

Wonderful video! I love all the Miss Marples, but Geraldine is my favorite. I always loved that twinkle in her eyes. And I think it was a good choice to give her Miss Marple some backstory-- adding depth to a Miss Marple that some might dismiss as being too sweet with her elfin face, baby voice, and impish smile. If anything, Geraldine's Miss Marple always seemed like she knew some joke or inside info that everyone else missed, and that she loved it. And let's face it-- with all those murders, some part of Miss Marple must enjoy the mystery, puzzle solving, and closing in on the killer. Geraldine was able to convey Marple's humanity, but also her perverse interest in solving grizzly crimes.

You don't talk about how brilliant she was as Lucia

Thank you for making this interesting video.

I always liked Ms Marple because she was a spinster (like me) and not at all nice. She knew human nature and wasn’t taken in. Ms McEwan was different, more of the sweet old lady. I enjoyed it but missed my harder Ms Marple.

❤ One of my favorite actresses

McEwan starred with Reese Witherspoon in Vanity Fair - enjoyed watching your tribute to Geraldine.

Geraldine McEwan had an etheral yet pointed acting style and her "Miss Marple" was most engaging for me, irrespective of the series style and a little too full of well known TV stars + actors otherwise... I actually found her Marple less formal, more realistic, albeit a quirky to almost eccentric everyday Country Village elderly spinster. Her slight build etc contrasted the character's sleuth mind and her playful wit brought about familiarity... She would've been a marvellous large screen Marple, though her wardrobe would've required a bit more tweed etc but that's also why she embodied a different Marple too, as she looked like an elderly old fashioned spinster living as a normal village resident in contrast her character's sleuthing magnificence.

This was a lovely tribute, thank you.

She and Julia McKenzie are my favorites. Others have always been dull. Same goes for David Suchet as Poirot. Even Kenneth Branagh couldn't get close to his performance.

very enjoyable overview. no scandal....but such twinkle.

Buonasera La Signora Geraldine McEwan , è sorprendentemente brava come attrice , una persona umile e sensibile . La sua Recitazione è personale e incantevole , mai fuori posto , una recitazione intrigante che cattura la scena . Una Signora e persona adorabile . Grazie per questo contributo , il suo ricordo farà si che sia sempre ricordata con tanto Affetto . Almeno per me 🤗☺

It's very curious my feelings about McEwan's depiction of Miss Marple. I most certainly like the actress and her style in other roles. But I can't stand her in the role of Miss Marple. I tried to watch it a couple of times and it was her scenes that made me stop watching it. There are stellar actors in the whole show and the production is perfect, but she ruins it for me. I could say it's the modernisation of her that I dislike, but I actually like the Margaret Rutherford depiction also, Magaret Rutherford is NOTHING like the book character, but I forgave her. It's a shame really. I think it would have been pleasant to watch had they taken a different path with Marple's character. So I'm glad she's not doing it any more. In my opinion and also in Agatha Christie's opinion Joan Hickson is the closest to the book character, she conveys the sharp intellect and complex relationships with the police, a slight irritation and disrespect which grows into more of a Sherlock Holmes regard. So I don't agree with your preference for her in the role. Each to their own though. Ha! speaking of Kenneth Brannagh, he is also destroying Agatha Christie works. I saw his Murder on the Orient express with the much beloved Johnny Depp. Again wrong wrong. Perhaps the latest one he's done. I read the story about the seance, but I think he's made it more interesting, I hope so.

I think Miss McEwan is on a par with each distinguishing actress that has played Miss Marple. And, her onscreen partnership with Dame Joanna Lumley is possibly the best Marple pairing. Mapp and Lucia is probably one of the best tv adaptations ever. The whole cast being incredible. Perfection.

I loved Geraldine in the series "The Prime of Miss Jane Brodie". We also liked Maggie Smith in the movie. But "little guhles" was a slogan in our two daughter's household with as much of a British Accent as we could manage.

My most enjoyable Miss Marple. I listened to audiobooks, then when i watched Nemesis, i thought, yep thats Miss Marple. Never looked back. Loved her cardigan.😅

I have first saw Miss McEwan's work when she played Miss Jean Brodie in STV's 'The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie', her performance as Jean Brodie has never left me, a beautiful series, for me personally she will always be Miss Jean Brodie.

I love your Miss Marple videos. Would it be an idea sometime make one about actress Helen Hayes as Marple too? Never mind: Keep up the good work! 🥇

She could never replace Joan Hickson in my eyes. Even preferred Margaret Rutherford to her.Geraldine just seemed too phoney for me.

Thank you for this. What an interesting woman. I have to admit that I couldn't stand her Miss Marple but I loved her in 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' and most highly recommend this series if it is still available on DVD. God Bless and may she rest in peace.

Though I love them all, she is my favorite Miss Marple. I think she's the Miss Marple that would like me the best, too. I'm not a AC purist, so I don't mind her creativity with the character.

Def my favorite Marple. In the books, Miss Marple is described as fluffy, dithery, twittering. People tend to view her talk as somewhat nonsensical, which is how she gets them to let their guard down. She's also often described as having a twinkle in her eye. McEwan is the only one who ever played the character as Christie wrote her, very upbeat and loquacious and a bit silly at times. Both Hickson and McKenzie played her quiet, staid, and understated, while Rutherford was a battleship (much closer to Christie's description of Ariadne Oliver). I like their portrayals in their own right, but I definitely feel like McEwan felt the most right for the role.

she was the best best. ı loved watching her and when the serious stop ı was sad.

My favorite Miss Marple loved her

I like her as an actress but Joan Hickson might be the closest what Miss Marple would be in my mind but her approach is quite refreshing, but she is the mischievous Marple and Joan is the cannon

Such a great person ❤

20:59 I admire her even more

ı am so gale she made tv because we would not know her otherwise because we can't all go to London to watch her on stage.

She was magnificent in Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit. Scary good.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have an AI recreation of Miss Marple played by Joan Hickson. She was the best.

Excellent actress but Joan Hickson was for me the best Miss Marple.

She was the best Miss Marple.

For me, no one will ever touch Joans portrayal. But I think I would have like Geraldines a bit more if not for the flavor of the show itself. It was just too contemporary, too 'perky'. It and Geraldine reminded me more of Murder She Wrote than any of Christie's books. But for people who never read or aren't interested in reading Christie, I would probably recommend Geraldine. As for fellow readers, its Joan, 100%. I will never get tired of re-watching Joan as Miss Marple

I thought Geraldine was the best Miss Marple. Cheers Rosemary Western Australia 73yrs

McEwan and Hickson are my 2 favorite Marples. Altho different from each other, and I must give the nod of faithfulness to the books to Hickson, I did find McEwan's twinkle to be engaging and refreshing. Also, I never realized the roles she played in other movies (Henry V and Robin Hood), even tho when I saw those films, her characters (brief as the roles were) stood out memorably. I never enjoyed the Americanization of Marple by Lansbury. And I can't abide the bluster of Margaret Rutherford stomping about and mugging for the camera. Those films are, IMO, totally unwatchable.

You have the Dirk Bogarde caption over Richard Attenborough, but then a Bogarde image appears after it. Cheers!

i absolutely hated this version of miss marple. in fact, of the entire series. totally ruined the books. the best miss marple i ever saw on british tv was joan hickson.

Yes she’s my favourite.

If the bride was born in 1932, her age was not 18 in 1953, the year she married Hugh Crutwell.

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I don't look ke her as much as Joan Hickson's, her Miss Marple always seems to have a smirking, sardonic look. I prefer Joan's sweeter, gentler exterior with a sharp mind underneath.