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Miss Marble
Played by Carol Burnett
Miss Jane Marble, Carol Burnett’s elderly amateur sleuth in The Carol Burnett Show’s Miss Marple parody “Miss Marble Screams Bloody Murder”. A distant relative of the murdered Sir Cecil, she pokes around his manor, fakes her own death to…
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Miss Jane Marble, Carol Burnett’s elderly amateur sleuth in The Carol Burnett Show’s Miss Marple parody “Miss Marble Screams Bloody Murder”. A distant relative of the murdered Sir Cecil, she pokes around his manor, fakes her own death to trap the killer and ends up inheriting the estate.
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Carruthers (Miss Marble Screams Bloody Murder)Played by Dick Martin1 sketch
Gwendolyn (Miss Marble Screams Bloody Murder)Played by Vicki Lawrence1 sketch
Inspector Smendrick (Miss Marble Screams Bloody Murder)Played by Harvey Korman1 sketch
Reginald (Miss Marble Screams Bloody Murder)Played by Anthony Newley1 sketch
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