Miss Marple just got sexy! Classic mystery gets a raunchy revamp with Joanna Vanderham playing sultry American heiress
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She may not be the sexiest of sleuths but there is no fooling Agatha Christie's Miss Marple.
And ITV bosses are obviously hoping the wisened old spinster will still entice audiences - especially with the added glamour factor of gorgeous actress Joanna Vanderham in the mix.
Filming has begun for the latest adaptation of the detective stories written by Christie - although Miss Marple remains as an elderly spinster, her surrounding cast is notably glamorous.
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Miss Marple just got sexier! Joanna Vanderham plays a sultry American hostess in the latest adaptation of the Agatha Christie favourite
Tom Hughes joins Julia McKenzie, who plays Jane Marple, as filming begins for Marple: Endless Night.
Tom and Joanna are reunited to play young lovers alongside Olivier award-winning actress Julia.
Whilst staying with her recently widowed friend, Marjorie, played by Wendy Craig, Miss Marple meets the narrator of the story - handsome, working-class charmer Mike Rogers, played by Tom, who dreams of building his perfect home on local beauty spot, Gypsy’s Acre, despite its alleged curse.
In character! Joanna Vanderham and Glynis Barber get ready to star in the cunning drama
Soon Mike is also enchanted by the beautiful Ellie Goodman (Joanna Vanderham), an American heiress who is yearning to escape her closeted existence.
They quickly fall in love, and make plans to marry and build their dream home; their happiness tainted only by the threats and warnings of local gypsy, Mrs Lee (Janet Henfrey).
Murder most foul: Tom Hughes plays the narrator of the piece - it is his pretty heiress wife who is murdered
However, Mike’s childhood friend and architect, Robbie Hayman (Aneurin Barnard) ensures them all is fine, and before long their beautiful new home is built.
They tie the knot in a secret ceremony; but it’s not long before Ellie’s stepmother, Cora Van Stuyvesant (Glynis Barber), and lawyer, Andrew Lippincott (William Hope), descend.
When she twists her ankle, Ellie invites her one true friend, Greta Anderson to stay.
Transformed: Jane Marple lives in St Mary Mead - filming started in London on Sunday
Mike seems less than happy at another intrusion, and Miss Marple suspects that there is more to the stunning Miss Anderson than meets the eye.
Before long, tragedy strikes when Ellie is thrown from her horse and dies. A devastated Mike travels to New York to sort out his late wife’s estate with Lippincott, but then two more mysterious deaths occur.
There will be two more adaptations in the adaptation, A Caribbean Mystery and The Seven Dials Mystery.
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Jane Marple is based on Agatha Christie's step grandmother/Aunt Margaret West and her friends, over the years the character has been by a variety of actresses:
JOAN HICKSON - actress played Miss Marple on TV from 1984 to 1992, and received two BAFTA nominations and an OBE
Super detectives: Joan Hickson (left) and Geraldine McEwan took to the character over the years
GERALDINE MCEWAN played Miss Marple from 2004 to 2009 for the series Marple
Back with a bang: Julia McKenzie is back to playing Jane Marple - this time for a sexier adaptation
JULIA MCKENSIE: In 2008 she was announced as the replacement for ITV's Miss Marple
Over the radio: June Whitfield played the spinster on Radio 4
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