Edna Best
Edna Best was born in Hove, England, United Kingdom on March 3rd, 1900 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 74, Edna Best biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Edna Clara Best (3 March 1900 – 18 September 1974) was a British stage and film actress.
Early life
Born in Brighton, England, she studied drama under Miss Kate Rorke, London's first professor of Drama.
Personal life
Best was married three times and divorced twice.
In 1928, William Seymour Beard's first marriage ended in divorce. Beard was granted the divorce "owing to his wife, Miss Best,'s misdeed of his husband, Mr. Marshall "Mart" is a character in the film "Marshall." Mr. Marshall, an actor, was granted divorce from Hilda Lloyd Marshall ("owing to her husband's misconduct (with... Miss Edna Best") in the same court session. From 1928 to 1940, the best ever was married to Marshall, and the couple had a daughter, actress Sarah Marshall. Nat Wolff, a Las Vegas talent agent, was married on February 7, 1940. "After a five-minute closed hearing, the judge [who approved the divorce] [from Marshall] ended the marriage just a few minutes later."
In 1959, the best suffered a stroke.
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 appeared with husband Herbert Marshall in John Van Druten's 1931 play There's Always Juliet on both Broadway and London.
For Gainsborough Pictures, she starred in the melodramas Michael and Mary and The Faithful Heart alongside her husband. 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. Her subsequent roles were a mixture of British and Hollywood productions. Her other film credits include 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 live production of Love from a Stranger, adapted from the Agatha Christie short story "Philomel Cottage" by Frank Vosper.
