1940
Search results
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'.
- January 1, 1
- Hove, East Sussex, England, UK
- January 1, 1
- Geneva, Switzerland
Edna Best was a British actress who starred in theatre, film and radio. She was known for her roles in The Constant Nymph, Intermezzo, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and other plays by Noël Coward and Terence Rattigan.
- March 3, 1900
- September 18, 1974
Edna Best was a versatile and prominent performer in stage, film and radio from the 1920s to the 1950s. She also created a range of Art Deco pottery for Lawley's of Regent Street in London, influenced by Clarice Cliff's style.
With Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Frank Vosper. An ordinary British couple vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassination.
- (21K)
- Crime, Mystery, Thriller
- Alfred Hitchcock
- 1935-03-21
74 years (United Kingdom). biography, photo, best movies and TV shows, news, birthday and age, Date of Death, Real name. «Hallmark Hall of Fame: Berkeley Square (#8.5)» (1959), «The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen» (1958 – 1959), «Ford Star Jubilee» (1955 – 1956), «The Way of the World» (1955 – ...), «The United States Steel ...
People also ask
Who was Edna Best?
What films did Edna Best Make?
Who was Edna Clara best?
Is Edna Best still alive?
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 ...
