Edna Best

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Edna Best

Edna Clara Best (born March 3, 1900 in Hove , East Sussex , England , † September 18, 1974 in Geneva , Switzerland ) was a British actress .

Life

Edna Best began her acting career on the London stages and quickly achieved notoriety there. From the mid-1920s she was also active on Broadway , where she played numerous roles over the next 30 years.

Best made her film debut in the lead role of the silent film comedy Tilly of Bloomsbury , but she appeared only infrequently in film productions in the following years. She played one of her best-known roles in 1934 in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Man Who Knew Too Much as the mother of a kidnapped child. From the late 1930s she starred in several Hollywood films, such as the abandoned wife in the love story Intermezzo and the housekeeper of Gene Tierney in the comedy A Ghost on Free Feet . She retired from acting in the early 1960s.

In 1957 she received an Emmy Award nomination for portraying Ethel in the television movie This Happy Breed . For her services to the film, she was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .

Edna Best was married three times, including from 1928 to 1940 with the actor Herbert Marshall . In 1933 their daughter Sarah Marshall was born, who also worked as an actress.

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SURNAME Best, Edna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hove, Edna (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Hove , East Sussex , England , United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1974
Place of death Geneva , Switzerland