Telegram & Gazette (16/Jul/1990) - Margaret Lockwood, British film actress

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• keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Night Train to Munich (1940), Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, The Lady Vanishes (1938)

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Margaret Lockwood, British film actress

Actress Margaret Lockwood, the beautiful brunette who starred in Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 classic "The Lady Vanishes" and reigned over Britain's film industry in the 1940s, died yesterday. She was 73.

A Cromwell Hospital statement said the family had asked for no other details to be released.

Born in Karachi, Pakistan, on Sept. 15, 1916, she had her first stage role at age 12 as a fairy in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream."

She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and made her first film, "Lorna Doone," when she was 19.

Other notable films included "Night Train to Munich," "The Man in Gray," and the 1945 hit "The Wicked Lady." Parts of "The Wicked Lady" had to be reshot before it could be screened in the United States because her neckline was considered too daring.

In "The Wicked Lady," with James Mason, she played an aristocratic lady who joins a highwayman in his life of crime.