Marjorie Mars
Acting
Biography
She started her career as a stage actress, mainly on the west end stage in London. Her first role was as a student in The Winter Garden in Camden on the 18 September 1920. One of her last stage roles was as Vera Kurton in The Third Visitor at the Granville Theatre in Walham Green in Jan 1946. After this she mainly appeared on television and radio until her retirement in the late 1950's. She acted in a number of small budget UK films in the 1930s and 1940s. Her biggest part being Mary Norton in Brief Enounter. She was married to Graeme Muir.
Known For
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.
Brief Encounter
When her husband is wrongly accused of murder, an opera singer sets out to find the real culprit.
Take My Life
In 1915 during the First World War, a British secret agent is killed while stealing secret Turkish plans for the Gallipoli Campaign but manages to pass his information to an American journalist.
The Crouching Beast
Television broadcast of L'avare by Molière.
The Miser
A young woman locks an intruding blackmailer in her bedroom closet overnight, in order to prove her innocence in the morning.
Cupboard Love
'Switzerland. Schoolgirl poses as socialite to win diplomat.' (British Film Catalogue)
Maid Happy
'A destitute girl inherits a fortune from her grandmother, and has to fight off fortune hunters. She is eventually reunited with the man who first gave her shelter.' (British Film Institute)