Marianne Stone

Marianne Stone
(left) with Peter Sellers in Lolita (1962)
Born	(1922-08-23)23 August 1922 London, England, United Kingdom
Died	London, England, United Kingdom
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1943–83

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, of which she appeared in nine, and took part in an episode of the Carry On Laughing television series ("The Case of the Screaming Winkles"). She also had supporting roles with comedian Norman Wisdom.

She also appeared in 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. She appeared in 201 films before the offers dried up in the 1980s and she retired.

Stone died on 21 December 2009 at the age of 87.

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

• Brighton Rock (1947) (credited as Mary Stone)
• The Idol of Paris (1948)
• A Boy, a Girl and a Bike (1949)
• High Treason (1951)
• Blackmailed (1951)
• The Magic Box (1951)
• Angels One Five (1952)
• The Good Die Young (1954)
• The Crowded Day (1954)
• The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
• Yield to the Night (1956)
• High Terrace (1956)
• Fun at St. Fanny's (1956)
• Quatermass 2 (1957)
• Hell Drivers (1957)
• Just My Luck (1957)
• Man from Tangier (1957)
• Tiger Bay (1959)
• Horrors of the Black Museum (1959)
• The Angry Silence (1960)
• Never Let Go (1960)
• Jigsaw (1962)
• Lolita (1962)
• Crooks Anonymous (1962)
• The Fast Lady (1962)
• The Marked One (1963)
• Doctor in Distress (1963)
• The Hi-Jackers (1963)
• Heavens Above! (1963)
• The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964)
• Rattle of a Simple Man (1964)
• Traitor's Gate (1964)
• A Hard Day's Night (1964)
• Witchcraft (1964)
• Hysteria (1965)
• The Night Caller (1965)
• Devils of Darkness (1965)
• Catch Us If You Can (1965)
• The Wrong Box (1966)
• The Jokers (1967)
• To Sir, with Love (1967)
• The Long Duel (1967)
• Berserk! (1967)
• A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)
• Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1967)
• Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River (1968)
• Baby Love (1968)
• The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968)
• Twisted Nerve (1968)
• There's a Girl in My Soup (1970)
• Doctor in Trouble (1970)
• Countess Dracula (1971)
• All the Right Noises (1971)
• Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971)
• Assault (1971)
• Au Pair Girls (1972)
• Bless This House (1972)
• Tower of Evil (1972)
• Danny Jones (1972)
• The Cherry Picker (1972)
• Baxter! (1973)
• The Creeping Flesh (1973)
• The Vault of Horror (1973)
• Penny Gold (1973)
• Mistress Pamela (1974)
• Craze (1974)
• Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974)
• Confessions from a Holiday Camp (1977)
• Sammy's Super T-Shirt (1978)
• What's Up Superdoc! (1978)
• The Class of Miss MacMichael (1979)
• The Human Factor (1979)
• 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

External links

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