Marjorie Rhodes (9 April 1897 – 4 July 1979) was a British actress.

One of her best-known roles was as Lucy Fitton, the mother of Bill Naughton's northern comedy All in Good Time. She played the role on Broadway, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award in 1965. She reprised the role in the 1966 film version, The Family Way.

Rhodes was featured singing a track "The World Is For The Young" with Stanley Holloway in the Herman's Hermits 1968 film Mrs. Brown, You've Got A Lovely Daughter.

Her television appearances included Dixon of Dock Green (1961-2),For the Girl Who Has Everything episode of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969), Doctor at Large (1971) and Z-Cars (1974).

Selected filmography[link]

External links[link]

• Marjorie Rhodes at the Internet Movie Database
• Marjorie Rhodes at the Internet Broadway Database

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Marjorie Scardino
Marjorie Scardino at Financial Times Summer Party 2011
Born	(1947-01-25) 25 January 1947 (age 65) Arizona[1]
Residence	London
Nationality	American
Citizenship	British
Alma mater	Baylor University
Occupation	Chief executive
Employer	Pearson PLC
Spouse	Albert Scardino

Dame Marjorie Morris Scardino, DBE, FRSA (born 25 January 1947 United States)^[1] is the CEO of Pearson PLC. She became the first female Chief Executive of a FTSE 100 company when she was appointed CEO of Pearson^[2] in 1997. She is also a non-executive director of Nokia^[3] and former CEO of the Economist Group.^[4]

Scardino is a graduate of Baylor University and the University of San Francisco School of Law^[5] and the winner of the 2002 Benjamin Franklin Medal.^[6] Before 1985 she was the editor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper, The Georgia Gazette, where she worked with her husband Albert Scardino,^[4] later a media reporter for The New York Times.

She is also a trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum^[7] and serves on the board of the MacArthur Foundation and the Carter Center.^[8] She is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.^[5]

In 2007 she was listed 17th on the Forbes list of the 100 most powerful women in the World.^[9]

Citizenship[link]

Although she was born in the United States, she has taken British citizenship ^[10] so her honour is substantive.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Chief executive at Pearson PLC
• Profile at Bloomberg Businessweek
• #3 of 10 Global Leaders at Fortune, September 29, 2010
• Marjorie Scardino at the Notable Names Database
• Works by or about Marjorie Scardino in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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Marjorie Anderson (7 November 1913 – 14 December 1999) was a leading BBC radio broadcaster for over thirty years. From 1940 to 1945 she presented Forces Favourites on the World War II BBC Forces Programme and BBC General Forces Programmes and then its peacetime successor Family Favourites on the BBC Light Programme. Between 1955 and 1968 she presented Home For The Day on the BBC Home Service and is remembered as a presenter of Woman's Hour from 1958 until her retirement in 1972. Anderson's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame.

External links[link]

• Guardian obituary
• Woman's Hour page containing an example of her work
• The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame

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