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Edna Best, Edna Best (3 March 1900 – 18 September 1974) was a British actress.Born in Hove, England, she was educated in Brighton and later studied dramatic acting under Miss Kate Rorke. Best was well known on the London stage before she entered films in 1921, having made her debut at Grand Theatre, Southampton in Charleys 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 Hitchcocks 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).She received a nomination for an Emmy Award in 1957 for her role in This Happy Breed. Best 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 due to the limitations of the nascent technology.She was married to the actor Herbert Marshall from 1928 until 1940. They were the parents of the actress Sarah Marshall.Edna Best has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures at 6124 Hollywood Boulevard.She died in Geneva, Switzerland.[edit] Selected filmographyThe Calendar (1931)The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)South Riding (1938)[edit] External linksBiography portalEdna Best at the Internet Movie DatabaseEdna Best at the Internet Broadway DatabaseEdna Best at Find a GravePersondataNameBest, EdnaAlternative namesHove, EdnaShort descriptionActressDate of birth3 March 1900Place of birthHove, EnglandDate of deathSeptember 18, 1974Place of deathGeneva, SwitzerlandThis article about a British film actor or actress is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.v · d · eRetrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_BestCategories: 1900 births | 1974 deaths | English film actors | People from Hove | British film actor stubsHidden categories: Articles lacking sources from December 2007 | All articles lacking sources | Infobox person using deprecated parameters | Articles with hCardsPersonal toolsLog in / create accountNamespacesArticleDiscussionVariantsViewsReadEditView historyActionsSearchNavigationMain pageContentsFeatured contentCurrent eventsRandom articleDonate to WikipediaInteractionHelpAbout WikipediaCommunity portalRecent changesContact WikipediaToolboxWhat links hereRelated changesUpload fileSpecial pagesPermanent linkCite this pagePrint/exportCreate a bookDownload as PDFPrintable versionLanguagesDeutschFrançaisItalianoPlattdüütschSvenska This page was last modified on 15 December 2010 at 14:10.Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;additional terms may apply.See Terms of Use for details.Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.Contact usPrivacy policyAbout WikipediaDisclaimers if ( window.isMSIE55 ) fixalpha(); if (window.runOnloadHook) runOnloadHook();