Cast: Edna Best
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Edna Best. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 17
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
1947 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast Gene Tierney · Rex Harrison · George Sanders · Edna Best
Synopsis At the beginning of the twentieth century, Mrs. Edwin Muir - Lucy - widowed for one year, decides to move out of her controlling in-law's home in London to the English seaside with her adolescent daughter Anna and their long...
7.7
6K votes
7.7
6K votes
The Late George Apley
1947 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast Ronald Colman · Peggy Cummins · Vanessa Brown · Richard Haydn
7.0
659 votes
7.0
659 votes
A Dispatch from Reuter's
1940 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction William Dieterle
Cast Edward G. Robinson · Edna Best · Eddie Albert · Albert Basserman
Synopsis An entrepreneur builds an international news agency.
6.8
53 votes
6.8
53 votes
Intermezzo: A Love Story
1939 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Gregory Ratoff
Cast Leslie Howard · Ingrid Bergman · Edna Best · John Halliday
Synopsis After a successful tour ended in New York, the famous violinist Holger Brandt returns to his home in Stockholm. In the birthday party of his beloved daughter Ann Marie, he feels attracted by and plays with her piano teacher, Anita...
6.6
399 votes
6.6
399 votes
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alfred Hitchcock
Cast Leslie Banks · Peter Lorre · Edna Best · Frank Vosper
Synopsis Hitchcocks first and arguably superior production of the same story he retold in 1956 with James Stewart and Doris Day, and critics continue to argue the films merits versus its successor. An English couple on holiday in Switzerland find themselves...
6.5
5K votes
6.5
5K votes
The Iron Curtain
1948 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast Dana Andrews · Gene Tierney · June Havoc · Berry Kroeger
5.9
262 votes
5.9
262 votes
Swiss Family Robinson
1940 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Edward Ludwig
Cast Thomas Mitchell · Edna Best · Freddie Bartholomew · Terry Kilburn
Synopsis A family setting out for a new life across the sea is shipwrecked on a deserted island. The family members collaborate to create an idyllic home for themselves, only to find the island under siege by pirates.
5.6
62 votes
5.6
62 votes
A Couple of Down and Outs
1923 · Movie · 65 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Walter Summers
Cast Edna Best · Rex Davis · George Foley · Philip Hewland
Synopsis An ex-soldier steals his horse to save it from the battlefield, and becomes a tramp.
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Ford Star Jubilee (TV Series)
1955 · Series · 90 min. · United States
Direction Noël Coward · Franklin J. Schaffner · Paul Harrison · Paul Nickell
Cast Noël Coward · Bing Crosby · Herbert Anderson · Raymond Bailey
Synopsis TV Series (1955-1956). 2 seasons. 12 episodes. An anthology series featured major stars, such as Judy Garland, Betty Grable, Orson Welles, Julie Andrews, Lillian Gish, Charles Laughton, Jack Lemmon, Raymond Massey, Lauren Bacall or Claudette Colbert.
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The Faithful Heart
1932 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Victor Saville
Cast Herbert Marshall · Edna Best · Mignon O'Doherty · Laurence Hanray
Synopsis Best plays the daughter of Marshall, who years earlier had run out on his family. When Edna re-enters Marshall’s life, it causes him to reassess his values-and to end his engagement to his judgmental fiancee.
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Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series)
1950 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Norman Felton · John Newland · Perry Lafferty · Vincent J. Donehue
Cast Luther Adler · Brian Aherne · Eddie Albert · Robert Alda
Synopsis Robert Montgomery Presents is a dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor,...
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The Key
1934 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast William Powell · Edna Best · Colin Clive · Hobart Cavanaugh
Synopsis British officer is assigned to duty in Ireland and gets embroiled in Anglo-Irish battles and old girl friend who is now married to an Irishman. Powell learns more than he wanted to know about "the Irish Problem."
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The Calendar
1931 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction T. Hayes Hunter
Cast Herbert Marshall · Edna Best · Anne Grey · Gordon Harker
Synopsis An ex-convict butler helps a bankrupt horse-owner prove that he did not deliberately lose a race.
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South Riding
1938 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Victor Saville
Cast Edna Best · Ralph Richardson · Edmund Gwenn · Ann Todd
Synopsis "Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working...
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Michael and Mary
1931 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Victor Saville
Cast Herbert Marshall · Edna Best · Frank Lawton · Elizabeth Allan
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Celanese Theatre (TV Series)
1951 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Alex Segal · David Alexander
Cast Wendell Corey · Ralph Morgan · Philip Coolidge · Wesley Addy
Synopsis TV Series (1951-1952). 1 season. 20 episodes. This program consisted of adaptations of high-quality plays written by leading playwrights.
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Prison Without Bars
1938 · Movie · 72 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Brian Desmond Hurst
Cast Corinne Luchaire · Edna Best · Barry K. Barnes · Mary Morris
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