Profile: Marjorie Humphriss

Loft credits (click a play title to view details)

• Mrs Sanders, Pillars of Society (1950)
• The Countess of Lister, The Chiltern Hundreds (1950)
• Penelope Sycamore, You Can’t Take it With You (1950)
• Mrs Barry, Indoor Fireworks (1948)
• Belle Schlessinger, Dear Octopus (1948)
• Director, George and Margaret (1947)
• Ella Spender, Quiet Weekend (1947)
• Calpurnia, Julius Caesar (1947)
• Lady Sneerwell, The School for Scandal (1946)
• Tiny Fox-Collier, Spring Meeting (1946)
• Director, The Merchant of Venice (1946)
• Mrs Gilbey, Fanny’s First Play (1945)
• Director, Mr Pim Passes By (1945)
• Miss Preedworthy, Men Are Missing (1945)
• Mrs Batley, They Came to a City (1944)
• Marquise Eloise de Kestournel, The Marquise (1944)
• Director, The Rose Without a Thorn (1942)
• Sarah, Family Affairs (1942)
• Director, The Family Group (1942)
• Marged Shôn, The Poacher (1942)
• Fernandita, The Lady from Alfaqueque (1941)
• Mrs Malaprop, The Rivals (1939)
• Dona Filomena, A Hundred Years Old (1939)
• Mrs Juno, Overruled (1939)
• Julia Builder, A Family Man (1938)
• Director, Arms and the Man (1938)
• Mistress Page, The Merry Wives of Windsor (1938)
• Director, Little Plays of St Francis (1938)
• Lady Macbeth, Macbeth (1937)
• She, How He Lied to Her Husband (1937)
• Maria, Twelfth Night (1937)
• Aline Maulfrey, Reprisal (1937)
• Director, No Man’s Island (1937)
• Mrs Dubedat, The Doctor’s Dilemma (1935)
• Mrs Morson, And Then (1935)
• Lady Capulet, Romeo and Juliet (1935)
• Jane Cameron, Troubled Waters (1934)
• Lady Vincent, The Avenger (1934)
• Dona Belen, The Women Have Their Way (1934)
• Mayoress, The Immortal Memory (1934)
• Emilia, Othello (1933)
• Cloaked lady, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets (1933)
• Janet Stevens, Three and Indivisible (1933)
• Lady Kitty Champion-Cheney, The Circle (1931)
• Dultitia Sloane/Director, Passing Brompton Road (1931)
• Alice Greenleaf, Bird in Hand (1930)
• Mrs Jones, The Rumour (1930)
• Judith Bliss/Director, Hay Fever (1929)
• Olivia Marden, Mr Pim Passes By (1928)
• Portia, The Merchant of Venice (1927)

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