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Edna Best was known on the London stage before she entered films in 1921, having made her debut at the Grand Theatre, Southampton, in Charley's Aunt in 1917. She also won a silver swimming cup as the lady swimming champion of Sussex.
Edna Best. Actress: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. Genteel, ladylike British actress who was a much respected theatrical star in the 1920s and '30s, both in her own country and in the United States. Born in March 1900 in Hove, Sussex, she took to the stage at the age of seventeen as Ela Delahay in 'Charley's Aunt'.
Genteel, ladylike British actress who was a much respected theatrical star in the 1920s and '30s, both in her own country and in the United States. Born in March 1900 in Hove, Sussex, she took to the stage at the age of seventeen as Ela Delahay in 'Charley's Aunt'.
Edna Best. A woman of her time, the soft-spoken, blue-eyed and fair-haired Edna Best enjoyed a movie career spanning four decades from the nineteen twenties through to the fifties.
Sep 19, 1974 · LONDON, Sept. 18 —Edm Best, for many years a popular actress on the London stage died today in a Geneva clinic She was 74 years old. Her most famous part was as Tessa in the dramatized versior ...
Edna Best was a British actress. She is best remembered for her role as the mother in the original 1934 film version of Alfred Hitchcock 's The Man Who Knew Too Much.
Edna Best. Highest Rated: 100% The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) Lowest Rated: 89% The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) Birthday: Mar 3, 1900. Birthplace: Hove, East Sussex, England, UK.
Infrequently seen in films, Edna Best's most memorable movie assignment included the mother of kidnap victim Nova Pilbeam in Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) and the wife of prodigal violinist Leslie Howard in Intermezzo (1939).
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Edna Best is known as an Actor. Some of her work includes The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Intermezzo: A Love Story, Swiss Family Robinson, A Dispatch from Reuters, The Iron Curtain, South Riding, and The Key.
