Margaret Vines (16 January 1907 – 1 March 1997) was a British

actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a Character (arts), character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek ...

. She performed initially on stage, in the London West End, in the 1920s and 1930s. She then progressed into a career on screen, appearing in several films as well as TV productions. Vines was born on 16 January 1907 in Lourenco Marques,

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. She studied at St. Andrew's School in

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. After moving to London to study at the

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, she made her professional acting debut in 1926 at the Brixton Theatre. She also made her Broadway debut as Anne of Bohemia in ''

Richard of Bordeaux ''Richard of Bordeaux'' (1932) is a play by "Gordon Daviot", a pseudonym for Elizabeth MacKintosh, best known by another of her pen names, Josephine Tey. The play tells the story of Richard II of England in a romantic fashion, emphasizing the r ...

'' (1934). Vines received a

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in 1955 for Best West End Supporting Actress for her work in ''

Morning's at Seven ''Morning's at Seven'' is a play by Paul Osborn. Its plot focuses on four aging sisters living in a small Midwestern town in 1928, and it deals with ramifications within the family when two of them begin to question their lives and decide to mak ...

''. Vines was married to Edmund Loftus-Tottenham. Following the end of that marriage, she married Denis Gordon in 1947.

Filmography

Her films as an actress included: * ''

Frail Women ''Frail Women'' is a 1932 British drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Mary Newcomb, Owen Nares, Frank Pettingell and Herbert Lomas (actor), Herbert Lomas. In the years after World War I a Colonel marries his war-time mistress. It ...

'' (1932) * '' Open All Night'' (1934) * ''The Vicar of Bray'' (1937)

References

External links

* https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary--margaret-vines-1272748.html * https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0898940/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Vines, Margaret 1907 births 1997 deaths British stage actresses 20th-century British actresses Alumni of RADA British film actresses British television actresses British expatriates in Mozambique