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Norah Baring (26 November 1905 – 8 February 1985), born Nora Minnie Baker, was an English stage and film actress best known on screen for portraying "Diana Baring" in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Murder! (1930). Her other notable roles include the female lead in Anthony Asquith's silent thriller A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929). Baring studied ...
Norah Baring was born on 26 November 1905 in Acton, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Murder! (1930), Underground (1928) and Mystery at the Villa Rose (1930). She was married to John Henry K. Baerselman, Douglas A. Forbes and Ronald M. Simon. She died on 8 February 1985 in Puttenham, Surrey, England, UK.
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Norah Baring was born on November 26, 1905 in Acton, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Murder! (1930), Underground (1928) and Mystery at the Villa Rose (1930). She was married to John Henry K. Baerselman, Douglas A. Forbes and Ronald M. Simon. She died on February 8, 1985 in Puttenham, Surrey, England, UK.
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Norah Baring (born Norah Minnie Baker) was an English movie actress most famous for her leading roles in Anthony Asquith's silent film A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929) and Alfred Hitchcock thriller Murder!(1930). In 1935, she interviewed Hitchcock for the Film Pictorialmagazine. She married three times and died in 1985, aged 79.
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born 26/Nov/1905daughter of draper warehouseman Forester Cyril Baker (b. 1880) and Annie Maude Baker (b. ~1876) née Stewartwho married around 1904baptised 24/Dec/1905 at St Saviour, Shepherds Bushmarried 1928 to Ronald M. SimonPlot. Diana Baring ( Norah Baring ), a young actress in a travelling theatre troupe, is found in a daze with blood on her clothes, sitting by the murdered body of another young actress, Edna Druce. The poker used to commit the murder is at Diana's feet, but she has no memory of what happened during the minutes the crime was committed.
Norah Baring (26 November 1905 – 8 February 1985), born Nora Minnie Baker, was an English stage and film actress most famous on screen for portraying Diana Baring in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Murder! (1930). She is also known for playing the female lead in Anthony Asquith's silent thriller A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929).
Murder! Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1930 • United Kingdom. Starring Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Phyllis Konstam. One of Alfred Hitchcock’s signature obsessions—the “wrong man” motif he would return to time and again—receives one of its earliest treatments in this innovative whodunit.
