Mary Martlew

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Mary Martlew (born August 8, 1919 in Atherton , Lancashire , England , United Kingdom , † October 26, 1989 in Vienna , Austria ; born Mary Martlew Greenhalgh , married Escher ) was a British-Swiss actress .

Life

Born in England Mary Martlew Greenhalgh spent part of their schooling in French-speaking Switzerland . She later took acting classes at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and the London School of Music. From the late 1930s she appeared regularly as an actress in mostly contemporary plays, especially on London stages. Since then she has used both of her first names as a stage name .

In addition, Mary Martlew had supporting roles in some movies in the 1940s , such as the Leo Tolstoy film version Anna Karenina (1948) and in the early television film Cry Havoc (1947).

In 1949 she married the Swiss ambassador Alfred Martin Escher . She had three children with him. After their marriage, she retired from acting for over a quarter of a century, but then continued her stage career from 1977 until her death.

She was particularly connected to Vienna's English Theater . At this English-speaking theater in Vienna, she not only celebrated her comeback in 1977 with the leading roles in The Circle by W. Somerset Maugham and Hay Fever by Noël Coward , but also made her last stage appearance in 1989 with the title role in Alfred Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy . In addition to leading roles in classic English-language plays such as The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (1978), Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring (1983), The Unexpected Guest by Agatha Christie (1986), Night Must Fall by Emlyn Williams (1987) and Several successful pieces by Noël Coward, she was also seen in the European premiere of Tina Howe's piece Painting Churches in 1985 . In 1983 she appeared in the television series Wagner - The Life and Work of Richard Wagner .

Mary Martlew Escher died on October 26, 1989 at the age of 70 in Vienna.

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Stage appearances (selection)

year piece Director theatre
1938-1939 A party for Christmas Haymarket Theater , London
1943 Claudia William Armstrong St. Martin's Theater, London
1944 Something in the Air Alhambra Theater, Glasgow
1945-1946 1066 - and All That Gerald Cross Palace Theater , London
1948-1949 The way of the world John Burrell New Theater, London
1948-1949 The Cherry Orchard Hugh Hunt New Theater, London
1977 The Circle Vienna's English Theater
1977 Hay Fever Vienna's English Theater
1978 The Importance of Being Earnest Vienna's English Theater
1979 Bedroom farce Vienna's English Theater
1979 The Lion in winter Cyril Frankel Vienna's English Theater
1981 Jane Kim Grant Vienna's English Theater
1983 Arsenic and Old Lace Vienna's English Theater
1983 Tonight at Eight Tony Craven Vienna's English Theater
1985 Painting Churches Franz Schafranek Vienna's English Theater
1986 The Unexpected Guest Anna Barry Vienna's English Theater
1986 The Circle Ruth Brinkmann Vienna's English Theater
1987 Night Must Fall Ruth Brinkmann Vienna's English Theater
1988 Blithe Spirit Joan Kemp-Welch Vienna's English Theater
1989 Driving Miss Daisy Vienna's English Theater

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bernd Haunfelder (Ed.): From Adenauer's vicinity. The political correspondence of the Swiss Embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany 1956–1963 . DDS, Bern 2012, p. 74, doi : 10.5907 / Q2 .
  2. ↑ Short Biography Mary Martlews in the English-speaking Internet Movie Database ; Retrieved February 14, 2013.
  3. ↑ See the list of productions ( Memento of the original from June 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from Vienna's English Theater; Retrieved February 14, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.englishtheatre.at
personal data
SURNAME Martlew, Mary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Greenhalgh, Mary Martlew (maiden name); Escher, Mary Martlew (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Swiss actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Atherton
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1989
Place of death Vienna