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Joan Hickson
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5 August 1906 - 17 October 1998
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English actress Joan Hickson was born on August 5, 1906 in Kingstorp (Norhamptonshire), lived a long century and went beyond the horizon, leaving more than a hundred films with her participation, recordings of performances on the stage and the image of Miss Marple, for the role of which Hickson blessed herself. Agata Christie . Since the days of a children’s Christmas play, naive and wonderful, five-year-old Joan firmly decided that she would be an actress, and seriously announced herself in 1928,
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English actress Joan Hickson was born on August 5, 1906 in Kingstorp (Norhamptonshire), lived a long century and went beyond the horizon, leaving more than a hundred films with her participation, recordings of performances on the stage and the image of Miss Marple, for the role of which Hickson blessed herself.
"The man who worked miracles" (1936) by Herbert Wells and
"Stranger's Love" (1937), adaptation of the novel by Agatha Christie. From the Queen of Detective Joan once received a letter in which the writer expressed hope to see her one day as Miss Marple. It happened, but many years later.
In 1984, the film “The Body in the Library” (directed by Silvio Narizzano) was released, in which Joan Hickson played Christie’s favorite heroine for the first time. Her Miss Marple, elegant, shrewd, reserved, became the height of perfection. After this first film, Hickson played a lady detective in eleven more films. Among them are Pocket Full of Rye (1986), Hotel Bertram (1986), Nemesis (1987) and At 4.50 from Paddington (1987). Joan Hickson in the image of the heroine Agatha Christie liked Elizabeth II so much that the actress received the Order of the British Empire from the hands of the English Queen for playing the role of Miss Marple.
Undoubtedly, Joan Hickson earned an award for her service to the arts: she continued to work despite her venerable age. The actress played her last role in the movie at the age of 86, after which she retired. Miss Marple once said, “It’s scary when no one remembers you young.” This bitter phrase apparently applied to the actress herself: she outlived many of her contemporaries and died in Colchester on October 17, 1998. /