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Margaret Lockwood
The Wicked Lady





Obituary


Margaret Lockwood,
the Wicked Lady, dies aged 73
Edition 3ss,
Monday 16th July, 1990
By Sheridan Morley


Margaret Lockwood, the last totally English film star to have stayed at thetop of the cinema box office polls for several years in succession, died lastnight in the Cromwell Hospital in west London at the age of 73.Whereas the rest of her 1940s generation, from Jean Simmons and Deborah Kerrto James Mason and Stewart Granger, went to seek international fame inHollywood, Miss Lockwood maintained a totally local kind of stardom thatnevertheless altered radically over the decades.

Born Margaret Day in India (1917 was the date she usually gave, though somereports put it as early as 1911) she started in films with ingenue roles in themiddle 1930s, notably Lorna Doone and Beloved Vagabond, before she was taken upby Hitchcock for the classic 1938 thriller The Lady Vanishes, in which sheplayed opposite Michael Redgrave.

The Lady Vanishes made Lockwood a star and took her almost immediately toHollywood. She was there for less than a year and only two movies, from whichshe returned to some very much better wartime work in England, notably inanother train thriller Night Train to Munich, The Stars Look Down and QuietWedding.

But it was in 1943 with The Man in Grey that she, Phyllis Calvert, StewartGranger and James Mason formed themselves into the quartet of Gainsborough stars most often to be found through the rest of the war years in a successionof snobbery-with-violence pictures, usually involving period costumes and agood horsewhipping. Lockwood would end up in these bruised by James Mason (TheWicked Lady, probably her best-known film).

As Granger and Mason moved on to sunnier Californian contracts, Lockwood's career went into roughly the same decline as the English cinema itself, beforefinishing up in Bryan Forbes's The Slipper and the Rose, her last big screenappearance in 1976.

In the meantime, however, she had begun to carve out a new career in thetheatre. She played Peter Pan for three seasons and had a long Savoy run in thethriller Spider's Web. She also had three long-running television serials,notably Justice.

She was married once (to Rupert Leon), divorcing 40 years ago, and leaves adaughter, the actress Julia Lockwood.

Phyllis Calvert said last night: "Over the last ten years she lived quitelike a hermit. As a young actress, though, she was very gay but very seriousabout her work."



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Miss Margaret Lockwood;
Memorial service
Edition 1st, Wednesday 10th October, 1990


A service of thanksgiving for the life and work of Miss Margaret Lockwood washeld yesterday at St Paul's, Covent Garden. The Very Rev David Elliottofficiated. Miss Jean Kent read from the works of Rudyard Kipling and MissPhyllis Calvert from the works of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Miss Polly James paidtribute.Mr Barrie Bignold, piano, played The Cornish Rhapsody by Hubert Bath and MissAnne Rogers sang Love Steals Your Heart from the film The Wicked Lady.

Amongthose present were:Mr Ernest Clark and Miss Julia Lockwood (son-in-law and daughter), Mr TimClark and Mr Nicholas Clark (grandsons), Lucy and Catherine Clark(granddaughters), Miss Penny Robinson, Mrs Betty Lait, Mr Simon Lait, Miss JeanLait, Miss Sarah Gall, Mr Nicholas Gall, Miss Tamara Gall, Mr Andrew Clark, MrsGinny Tristan, Mrs Rosanna Cheyney.Sir Peter and Lady Saunders, Miss Chili Bouchier, Mr Maurice Denham, Mr RobertFlemyng, Mr Desmond Llewellyn, Miss Kathleen Byron, Mr Francis Burrow, Miss EveSouthwood, Miss June Wyndham-Davies, Mrs Beryl Cook, Mr Anthony Holland, MrTheo Cowan, Mr Michael Thornton, Miss Deddie Davies, Miss Hazel Bainbridge,Miss Patricia Dainton, Mr Norman Williams, Mr John Stone, Mr A Jackson, MrRobert Eddison, Mr and Mrs Michael Cochrane.Mr Alan Sleath (chairman, Associates of RADA) with Miss Barbara Todd; MissElla Slack (BBC), Mr Frank Coven (London director, Nine TV Network ofAustralia) and Mrs Coven, Mr E Gansler (British Music Hall Society), MissJudith Craig (Henry Sherwood Productions), Mr Ken Gibson (Contact ArtistsAssociation), Mr William Quinn (Irish Actors' Equity Association), Mr KenSefton (Gallery First Nighters Club) and Mr Patrick Newley (Stage and TV Today).

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Actress - filmography
(1970s) (1960s) (1950s) (1940s) (1930s)

1. Slipper and the Rose, The (1976) .... Stepmother
   ... aka Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella, The (1976)
2. "Justice" (1972) TV Series .... Harriet Peterson
   
   
3. "Flying Swan, The" (1965) TV Series .... Mollie Manning
   
   
4. Cast a Dark Shadow (1957) .... Freda Jeffries
   ... aka Angel (1957/II)
5. Laughing Anne (1954) .... Laughing Anne
   ... aka Between the Tides (1954)
6. Trouble in the Glen (1953) .... Marissa Mengues
7. Trent's Last Case (1952) .... Margaret Manderson
8. Highly Dangerous (1950) .... Frances Gray
   
   
9. Madness of the Heart (1949) .... Lydia Garth
10. Cardboard Cavalier (1949) .... Nell Gwynne
11. Look Before You Love (1948) .... Ann Markham
12. Pygmalion (1948) (TV) .... Eliza Doolittle
13. White Unicorn, The (1947) .... Lucy
    ... aka Bad Sister (1947) (USA)
14. Jassy (1947) .... Jassy Woodroffe
15. Hungry Hill (1947) .... Fanny Rose Flower
16. Bedelia (1946) .... Bedelia Carrington
17. Wicked Lady, The (1945) .... Barbara Worth
18. I'll Be Your Sweetheart (1945) .... Edie Story
19. Place of One's Own, A (1945) .... Annette
20. Love Story (1944) .... Lissa Campbell
    ... aka Lady Surrenders, A (1944) (USA)
21. Give Us the Moon (1944) .... Nina
22. Dear Octopus (1943) .... Penny Randolph
    ... aka Randolph Family, The (1943)
23. Man in Grey, The (1943) .... Hesther
24. Alibi (1942) .... Helene Ardouin
25. Girl in the News (1941) .... Anne Graham
26. Quiet Wedding (1941) .... Janet Royd
27. Night Train to Munich (1940) .... Anna Bomasch
    ... aka Gestapo (1940)
    ... aka Night Train (1940)
    ... aka Night Train to Munich (1940) (USA)
28. Stars Look Down, The (1940) .... Jenny Sunley
    
    
29. Girl Must Live, A (1939) .... Leslie James
    ... aka Girl Has to Live, A (1939) (UK)
30. Rulers of the Sea (1939) .... Mary Shaw
31. Susannah of the Mounties (1939) .... Vicky Standing
32. Lady Vanishes, The (1938) .... Iris Matilda Henderson
33. Bank Holiday (1938) .... Catherine Lawrence
    ... aka Three on a Weekend (1938) (USA)
34. Owd Bob (1938) .... Jeannie McAdam
    ... aka To the Victor (1938)
35. Melody and Romance (1937) .... Margaret Williams
36. Street Singer, The (1937) .... Jenny Green
    ... aka Interval for Romance (1937)
37. Who's Your Lady Friend? (1937) .... Mimi
38. Doctor Syn (1937) .... Imogene Clegg
39. Irish for Luck (1936) .... Ellen O'Hare
40. Jury's Evidence (1936) .... Betty Stanton
41. Beloved Vagabond, The (1936) .... Blanquette
42. Amateur Gentleman, The (1936) .... Georgina Huntstanton
43. Case of Gabriel Perry, The (1935) .... Mildred Perry
44. Honours Easy (1935) .... Ann
45. Lorna Doone (1935) .... Annie Ridd
46. Man of the Moment (1935) .... Vera
47. Midshipman Easy (1935) .... Donna Agnes
    ... aka Men of the Sea (1935) (USA)
48. Someday (1935) .... Emily
    ... aka Young Nowheres (1935)
    
    



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