Edna Best
Also Known As: Edna Clara Best
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hove, East Sussex, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: March 03, 1900
Age: 125 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: September 18, 1974
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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Overview: A young British widow rents a seaside cottage and soon becomes haunted by the ghost of its former owner.
Genres: Romance Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-25
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Intermezzo: A Love Story
Overview: A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter's talented piano teacher. When he invites her to go on tour with him, they make beautiful music away from the concert hall as well. He soon leaves his wife so the two can go off together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-06
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
Overview: While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-01
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The Iron Curtain
Overview: The Iron Curtain is based on the actual 1945 case of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko, (Dana Andrews), who, after careful training, was assigned to the U.S.S.R. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada in the midst of World War II. Eventually, Gouzenko defected with 109 pages of material implicating several high level Canadian officials, outlined the steps taken to secure information about the the details of the nuclear bomb via numerous sleeper cells established throughout North America. The scandal that resulted when details of this case were publicized by American columnist Drew Pearson in early 1946 involved Canada, Britain and the United States.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-16
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The Key
Overview: A British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-09
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South Riding
Overview: 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 for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-01
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A Dispatch from Reuters
Overview: German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-19
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Escape!
Overview: When Matt Denant (Gerald de Maurier) finds himself wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter, he takes an opportunity to escape from jail during a foggy day and is forced to rely on the goodwill of local people to remain a fugitive of the law.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-28
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Swiss Family Robinson
Overview: A family setting out for a new life across the sea is shipwrecked on a deserted island. The family members collaborate to create a home for themselves in the jungle environment.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-08
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A Couple of Down and Outs
Overview: An ex-soldier steals his horse to save it from the battlefield, and becomes a tramp.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-23
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Loose Ends
Overview: 'A woman reporter is blackmailed for knowledge of freed suspect's involvement in a murder.' (British Film Institute)
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-22
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Prison Without Bars
Overview: Suzanne, Renee, Nina and Marta all hate being in prison, being slapped and treated badly, and so all the girls are trying to escape. Madame Appel just causes chaos all the time, with her harsh manners. When Yvonne with her free-thinking ways is put in charge of the school for misbehaving girls, and asks them to tell her their complaints, they don't believe her at first. Yvonne is in love and about to marry the establishment's doctor, and it does not help that one teenage girl falls for him - and is corresponded. It's a hard life for the girls, and for the new female warden.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-20
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The Late George Apley
Overview: George and Catherine Apley of Boston lead a proper life in the proper social circle, as did the Apleys before them. When grown daughter Eleanor falls in love with Howard (from New York!), and son John with Myrtle (from Worcester!), the ordered life of the Apley home on Beacon Street is threatened, as is the hoped-for union of John and Apley-cousin Agnes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-19
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Beyond the Cities
Overview: "A wealthy young man, through losing the bulk of his fortune, goes to Canada, where he encounters and loves the daughter of the scoundrel lawyer who has robbed him." (Synopsis from The Bioscope, November 1930.)
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-18
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The Calendar
Overview: Racehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club where he is disqualified on race fixing allegations. He decides to get his own back with the help of Hillcott, an ex-burglar. Jill is the love interest
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-19
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Sleeping Partners
Overview: A neglected wife spends the night with a roué after drinking a sleeping draught.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-18
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The Faithful Heart
Overview: Herbert Marshall and Edna Best, husband and wife in 1933, star in the British drama Faithful Hearts. 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. When Faithful Hearts was released in the US, all the voices were redubbed by American actors; even Herbert Marshall, a fixture in Hollywood films since the dawn of the talkie era, was submitted to this electronic augmentation. Original titled The Faithful Heart (Americans must have more of everything!), the film was based on a play by Monckton Hoffe.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-01
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Michael and Mary
Overview: A young bride is deserted by her husband but finds happiness with another man. They contract a bigamous marriage for the sake of their child....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-29
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