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The Mirror Crack'd is a 1980 British mystery film directed by Guy Hamilton from a screenplay by Jonathan Hales and Barry Sandler, based on Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1962). It stars Angela Lansbury, Geraldine Chaplin, Tony Curtis, Edward Fox, Rock Hudson, Kim Novak, and Elizabeth Taylor.
Francis Iles (Anthony Berkeley Cox) was somewhat muted in his praise in his review in The Guardian of 7 December 1962 when he said, "she has of course thought up one more brilliant little peg on which to hang her plot, but the chief interest to me of The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side was the shrewd exposition of what makes a female film star tick the way she does tick.
Rhoda Lewis is village shopkeeper and postmistress Mrs Brogan in "A Pocketful of Rye", "4.50 from Paddington" and "The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side". Miss Marple's nephew Raymond West appears in "Sleeping Murder" (played by David McAlister) and in "A Caribbean Mystery" and "The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side" (played by Trevor Bowen).
The Mirror Crack'd: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side: Miss Marple: 1982: Evil Under the Sun: Evil Under the Sun: Hercule Poirot: 1983: Secret of the Blackbirds (Russian: Тайна "Чёрных дроздов") The novel A Pocket Full of Rye: Names changed: Soviet Union: 1985: Ordeal by Innocence: Ordeal by Innocence: Arthur Calgary: 1987
In 1980, Novak played fictional actress Lola Brewster in the British mystery-thriller The Mirror Crack'd, based on the story by Agatha Christie. She co-starred alongside Angela Lansbury, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson, and Elizabeth Taylor. She enjoyed making the film and got along with her co-stars and the film was moderately successful.
Agatha Christie's Marple (or simply Marple) is a British ITV television programme loosely based on books and short stories by British crime novelist Agatha Christie.The title character was played by Geraldine McEwan from the first to the third series, until her retirement from the role, and by Julia McKenzie from the fourth series onwards.
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Agatha Christie is widely assumed to have drawn the basic idea for her 1962 novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side from the real-life German measles tragedy of Tierney and her baby. The Off-Broadway Musical Violet references Gene Tierney several times. The main character Violet states that she wants a pair of "Gene Tierney eyes" due to the ...