Margaret Lockwood had a long career in the golden years of cinema. She did many period films throughout the ’30s and ’40s, and then some. Today we celebrate her legacy.
Lorna Doone (1934)
The Case of Gabriel Perry (1935)
Midshipman Easy (1935)
The Amateur Gentleman (1936)
The Beloved Vagabond (1936)
Doctor Syn (1937)
Susannah of the Mounties (1939)
Rulers of the Sea (1939)
The Man in Grey (1943)
A Place of One’s Own (1945)
I’ll Be Your Sweetheart (1945)
The Wicked Lady (1945)
Hungry Hill (1947)
Jassy (1947)
Pygmalion (1948)
The Cardboard Cavalier (1949)
Captain Brassbound’s Conversion (1953)
Laughing Anne (1953)
The Slipper and the Rose (1976)
What is your favorite Margaret Lockwood role? Share it with us in the comments!
Slipper and the Rose all the way. Assuring her daughters that they look splendid for the ball, she adds, “It will be difficult for your poor mama to outshine you!”
The actress in the Captain Brassbounds Conversion shot is Greer Garson…not a very flattering angle though.
The only woman listed in the cast is Margaret Lockwood. I wondered too, so I looked it up on IMDB.
Hence my confusion. Could be that the image is actually mislabeled. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That’s definitely Greer Garson, from a 1960 “Hallmark Hall of Fame” TV production of the play:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0595276/
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Margaret Lockwood was in a 1953 TV version, for the BBC:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1663975/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_22
I guess that’s probably why there’s nothing showing up in internet searches. British TV seemed to attempt to be as ephemeral as possible, so many productions wiped with little or no record of their existence.
In “The Wicked Lady” she BECOMES a highwayman, because she is bored with her marriage. As I blurbed for my (postponed) Durham NC film series, “Bad, bold Barbara (Lockwood from The Lady Vanishes) steals her cousin’s finance on the eve of the wedding, but quickly tires of him. Bored with country life, and seething after the loss at cards of a favorite brooch, she dresses up as the highwayman Captain Jackson to rob passing coaches at pistol point. But, what will happen when she encounters the real Jackson? England’s highest grossing film of 1945 features a heroine of transgressive villainy, a romance novel femme fatale. “The film may be in black and white, but Lockwood is like a streak of red on a grey canvass. Women identified with her, and men, of course, desired her” (Criterion.com)” Criterion released this in the Eclipse (downmarket, no extras) series, along with The Man in Grey–also worth watching.
Hello from Durham! I loved your Moviediva series and really miss Wednesday nights at the Carolina Theatre.
Haha greetings in return! Hopefully, Moviediva will be back at the Carolina later this year, although The Wicked Lady has been postponed.
Haven’t seen much of her work. “Wicked Lady” has been re-made at least once.
I think Faye Dunaway was in the version I saw.
We’ve reviewed the Fay Dunaway version, it’s epically campy & fun! But no idea how it compares to earlier versions.
Badly dear Trystan the remake is so bad it’s really good the original is great it got more plausible casting choices too James Mason as the highwayman for example full of roguish charm, I was surprised, it also has a younger Ralph than the remake so it’s more understandable Barbara’s cousin Caroline love for him and Caroline has guts too I LOVE when she slaps Barbara’s face when she tells flat in her face she stole Ralph from her for his money it certainly didn’t have the budget of the latter one but it’s much easier to take seriously
Huge thanks Sarah for choosing Margaret Lockwood for this weeks WCW post! She has always held a place in my heart ever since I was a small kid and my Nan (who was a dancer and worked in entertainment) gave me a rather splendid signed picture of her from when she played Nell in The Cardboard Cavalier… though my favorite role she took would have to be the Step Mother in The Slipper and the Rose, a guilty pleasure. I remember walzing round the room as a boy, singing “rainbows raced around the room when he danced with me”… I wonder if that might have been the point when my parents realised I was gay! Lmao. But I digress: I loved seeing the pic of Margaret in her Sissi inspired froth of frou-frou and I have been reminded about her playing Eliza in Pygmalion. She was totally amazing in it, from what I remember – I must hunt a copy down. Many thanks again for all your fantastic work.
Love her! The Man In Grey and The Wicked Lady are the best guilty pleasures! Jassy is good, from a book by the wonderful Norah Lofts. She played all her parts strauight but with such aplomb you can’t help but love the movies. Gainsborough Films was a very successful British company, and the movies are so good, in a kind of “hmm” way. Gainsborough’s Fanny By Gaslight is the original which was remade as Gaslight in the USA.
AND “The Man in Grey” stars James Mason, a favorite of mine, whose early career included several sexy-scary costume villains. He wore those multi-caped coats with flair.
Oh yes, this! He was brilliant, a great actor, and I loved the parts he played for Gainsborough!
Gaslight is based on the play Gaslight (called Angel Street when it premiered on Broadway). The original English film starred Anton Walbrook and Diana Wynyard. Fanny by Gaslight is based on a novel by Michael Sadlier, and starred Phyllis Calvert.
I’m always distracted by the lipstick line that goes beyond her natural lip line
She was great love Wicked Lady and Slipper and the Rose and basically everything she has done
She would have done a Vanity Fair movie It was perfect for her, pity it wasn’t made a small radio play is all we got of her as Becky, but basically I’m shore she wasn’t Lorna it was Victoria Hopper aka the original Constant Nymph (and Cathy Howard in 1947) in Wicked Lady she didn’t ditch her husband she secretly became a Hyghwayman for boredom and in the “Conversion” it was Greer Garson in a not very good angle though
I remember reading about Ann Veronica a TV movie from 1953 that She starred in was based on a early 20th century about an Edwardian Suffragette who rebels against her father’s tyranny it sounds interesting but I don’t know if it survives or has pictures
She played Annie Ridd, the hero’s sister, not Lorna, in Lorna Doone.