Full Name Edna Hove Name Edna Best Resting place Cremation Role Actress | Occupation Actress Children Sarah Marshall Years active 1921–1959 Grandchildren Timothy M. Bourne | |
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Movies and TV shows Similar People Herbert Marshall, Sarah Marshall, Gregory Ratoff, Joseph L Mankiewicz, Victor Saville | ||
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Edna Best (3 March 1900 – 18 September 1974) was a British actress.
Contents
- Goodbye mr chips 1939 laurence olivier edna best special guest james hilton
- Movie Legends Edna Best
- Early life
- Career
- Personal life
- Recognition
- Death
- Filmography
- References
Movie Legends - Edna Best
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, London.
Career
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.
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).
Best received a nomination for an Emmy Award in 1957 for her role in This Happy Breed. She had appeared on television as early as 1938, in a production of the play Love from a Stranger, adapted from the Agatha Christie short story "Philomel Cottage" by Frank Vosper. The Wednesday afternoon broadcast was aired live, not recorded, and could be seen only in London owing to the limitations of the nascent technology.
Personal life
Best was married three times and divorced twice.
Her first marriage, to William Seymour Beard, ended in divorce in 1928. The London Divorce Court gave Beard custody of the couple's twins (James and John Beard) in granting the divorce "owing to the misconduct of his wife, Miss Best, with Mr. Marshall." The "Mr. Marshall" referred to was actor Herbert Marshall, whose divorce from Hilda Lloyd Marshall ("owing to the misconduct of her husband ... with ... Miss Edna Best") was granted in the same court session. Best later was married to Marshall from November 28, 1928, until 1940, and they had a daughter, actress Sarah Marshall. She married talent agent Nat Wolff on 7 February 1940, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The judge "who granted the divorce [from Marshall] after a five minute closed hearing, performed the marriage a few minutes later."
Best suffered a stroke in 1959.
Recognition
Edna Best has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures at 6124 Hollywood Boulevard.
Death
She died in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1974, aged 74.