Cast: Edna Best

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Edna Best. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


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

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

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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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

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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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