Highest rated movie: Tiger Bay (1959)
Lowest rated movie: Stranger in the House (1967)
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Looking for reviews of Megs Jenkins movies? Cinafilm has a total of 1,499 reviews across 16 movies.
Movies starring Megs Jenkins have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 66%.
Tiger Bay - released in 1959 - is Megs Jenkins's highest rated movie, with a score of 77% based on 21 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Megs Jenkins is Stranger in the House - released in 1967 - with a score of 45% based on 602 reviews.
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.
Megs Jenkins has acted in films with Moira Lister, Finlay Currie, Andrew Cruickshank and Michael Brennan.
Megs Jenkins has worked with these film directors: Sidney Gilliat, Anthony Pelissier, Carol Reed and Otto Preminger.
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