Marianne Stone

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Marianne Stone (born August 23, 1922 in London , † December 21, 2009 , ibid) was a British actress .

Life

Stone, born in King's Cross, was raised by her grandparents, who owned several furniture stores. Stone came from a musical family. Her grandmother ran a music school with more than 100 students. Although Marianne won a music scholarship as a teenager, which should help her to study at the prestigious Royal College of Music , it was always her great desire to become an actress. After training as a stenographer , she worked as a typist at a bank. In 1940, Stone finally won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art .

From the early 1940s to the late 1980s, she starred in more than two hundred films. Mostly she mimed working class people such as waitresses, secretaries and landladies. Between 1963 and 1976 Stone starred in nine parts of the Carry-On film series .

Marianne Stone was married to the theater critic and film historian Peter Noble (1917–1997) from 1947 until his death; the couple had two children.

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SURNAME Stone, Marianne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England , UK
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 2009
Place of death London , England, UK