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Edna Clara Best (3 March 1900 – 18 September 1974) [ 1] was a British actress. Early life. Born in Hove, Sussex, England, she was educated in Brighton and later studied dramatic acting under Miss Kate Rorke who was the first professor of Drama at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, [ 2] London. Career.
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'.
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- Hove, East Sussex, England, UK
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- Geneva, Switzerland
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'.
- March 3, 1900
- September 18, 1974
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 ...
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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. Among her other film credits are Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939), Swiss Family Robinson (1940), The Late George Apley and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (both 1947) and The Iron Curtain(1948)...
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Edna Best was a versatile and accomplished actress who appeared in stage, film and radio productions from the 1920s to the 1950s. She was married to actor Herbert Marshall and starred in The Man Who Knew Too Much, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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