Marianne Stone

Marianne Stone (23 August 1922 – 21 December 2009) was an English character actress. She appeared in many films from the early 1940s to the late 1980s. She usually played working class parts such as barmaids, secretaries and landladies, and is probably best known for her contribution to the Carry On films where she appeared in nine in total and took part in an episode of the Carry On Laughing television series ("The Case of the Screaming Winkles").

Among her many other films are appearances in such classics as Brighton Rock (1947), Seven Days to Noon (1950), The 39 Steps (1959), Lolita (1962), Ladies Who Do (1963), Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) and the first two "Quatermass" films. Her most serious and arguably most dramatic role was as Lena Van Broecken in three episodes of the BBC's Secret Army between 1977 and 1978.

Stone, whose nickname was "Mugsie", was credited in her early films under the name "Mary Stone", and also has been credited as "Marion Stone". She was married for fifty years, from 1947 to 1997, to actor turned theatre critic and film historian Peter Noble, with whom she had two children, one of whom is DJ Kara Noble. Although she appeared in a record 201 films, in the 1980s the offers dried up and she retired.^[1]

Stone died 21 December 2009 at the age of 87.^[2]

Carry On contributions

• Carry On Nurse (1959) – Alice Able
• Carry On Constable (1960) - Miss Horton (voice only, for Lucy Griffiths)
• Carry On Jack (1963) - Peg
• Carry On Screaming (1966) – Mrs Parker
• Carry On Don’t Lose Your Head (1966) - Landlady
• Carry On Doctor (1967) - Mother
• Carry On at Your Convenience (1971) - Maud
• Carry On Matron (1972) - Mrs Putzova (scenes deleted)
• Carry On Girls (1973) – Miss Drew
• Carry On Dick (1974) - Maggie
• Carry On Behind (1975) – Mrs Rowan
• Carry On Laughing: "The Case of the Screaming Winkles" (1975) – Madame Petra

Selected other filmography

• Time Gentlemen, Please! (1952)
• The Net (1953)
• The Crowded Day (1954)
• The Brain Machine (1955)
• Private's Progress (1956)
• The Intimate Stranger (1956)
• High Terrace (1956)
• At the Stroke of Nine (1957)
• Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957)
• Hell Drivers (1957)
• Just My Luck (1957)
• Man from Tangier (1957)
• The Man Who Liked Funerals (1959)
• Tiger Bay (1959)
• Horrors of the Black Museum (1959)
• The Angry Silence (1960)
• Two and Two Make Six (1962)
• Lolita (1962)
• The Fast Lady (1962)
• The Marked One (1963)
• Doctor in Distress (1963)
• The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963)
• The Hi-Jackers (1963)
• The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964)
• Rattle of a Simple Man (1964)
• Traitor's Gate (1964)
• Witchcraft (1964)
• Hysteria (1965)
• The Night Caller (1965)
• To Sir, with Love (1967)
• The Long Duel (1967)
• Berserk! (1967)
• Baby Love (1968)
• Doctor in Trouble (1970)
• All the Right Noises (1971)
• Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971)
• Assault (1971)
• Bless This House (1972)
• Tower of Evil (1972)
• Danny Jones (1972)
• The Cherry Picker (1972)
• Baxter! (1973)
• The Creeping Flesh (1973)
• Mistress Pamela (1974)
• The Wicked Lady (1983)

Miscellany

• In the book English Gothic, Stone is highly praised for her contribution to the horror film genre.
• Stone was a good friend of Carry On producer Peter Rogers.
• In Donnie Darko, Maggie Gyllenhaal dresses in the Halloween party scene as Vivian Darkbloom, the character Stone played in the 1962 version of Lolita.
• Appeared in The Night Caller (1965) as the wife of Warren Mitchell whose daughter has been abducted by Medra.

Bibliography

• Jonathan Rigby, English Gothic
• Robert Ross, The Carry On Story
• Robert Ross, The Carry On Companion
• Robert Ross, Mr Carry On: The Life and work of Peter Rogers
• Neil Snelgrove, The Carry On book of Statistics
• Richard Webber, The A-Z of Everything Carry On
• Kenneth Williams, The Kenneth Williams Diaries

References

External links

• Marianne Stone at the Internet Movie Database
• Obituary in The Independent