Brian McFarlane’s excellent entry on Marjorie Rhodes in “Encyclopedia of British Film”:

Whatever she played, there was a whiff of no-nonsense Yorkshire pudding about this great character actress.   On stage with a concert party in 1920, in London from 1926, enjoying success in such forthright roles as Robert Donat’s mum Mrs Hardacre in “The Cure for Love” in 19456, a role she repeated in 1949 film, and the harridan ‘Emma Hornett’ in “Watch It Sailor” in 1961.   

She could be tough and bossy, like the Councillor, Miss Mouncey in “Time, Gentlemen Please” in 1952, droll like the stroppy, inebriated cook in “When We Are Married” in 1943 or dizzy bigamist ‘Suzie’ in “The Weak and the Wicked” or dignified like the prison wardness in “Yield to the Night” in 1956.   But two roles, perhaps stand out.   One is true-hearted ‘Mrs Mumford’, the former barmaid who married an Oxford graduate (‘He had a lovely life.   he never did a day’s work – I would’nt let him) and who galvanises the Women’s Institute in “Great Day” in 1945.   The other is a performance of extraordinary melting sympathy as the understanduing mother  in “The FamilyWay” in 1966, who brings the accumulated wisdom of her own married life to bear on her son to get his started.  it is the jewel in the crown of a remarkable career.