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Murder Most Foul

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1959
Indiscreet

as Doris Banks

1958
John and Julie

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1955
Trouble in Store

as Miss Gibson

1953
Personal Affair

as Vi Vining

1954
Secret People

as Penny

1952
A Boy, a Girl and a Bike

as Nan Ritchie

1949
The Monkey's Paw

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1948
Saraband for Dead Lovers

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1948
Green for Danger

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1947
Millions Like Us

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1943
Megs Jenkins Megs Jenkins

Birthday

1917-04-21

Place of Birth

Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK

Biography

An engineer's daughter, she had first planned on becoming a ballerina, using her original Christian name Muguette, but abandoned those plans by the age of 17 when she realized that her physique was more in keeping with her other first name, Megs. She trained in Liverpool at the School of Dancing and Dramatic Art and then joined the Liverpool Repertory Company in 1933 before moving to London to appear at the Player's Theatre four years later. During the 1950's, Megs was busy acting on stage and had considerable critical success in two plays by Emlyn Williams, 'Light of Heart' (1940) and 'The Wind of Heaven' (1945). Against character, she also played the vicious, unstable Alma Winemiller in 'Summer and Smoke' (1951) by Tennessee Williams. In 1956, she was awarded the Clarence Derwent Award as Best Supporting Actress for her role as the stoic wife of a longshoreman harbouring incestuous feelings for his niece in 'A View from the Bridge' by Arthur Miller. The previous year, she had made her Broadway debut in Chekhov's 'A Day by the Sea' as a supportive governess to an alcoholic physician.
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