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Saturday, November 21

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 13 Nov 2015
The challenges are gimmicky but fun – make your best dessert ... This week he looks at the myths around vampires, gorillas and death head moths and, naturally, does his best to rehabilitate them while educating us ... In the first (1934), Jill Lawrence (Edna Best) has her dance partner murdered in St Moritz, which triggers the kidnapping of her daughter by a gang of villains led by the mysterious Abbott (Peter Lorre)....

Nova Pilbeam: Alfred Hitchcock's star who vanished from view

Edit The Independent 21 Jul 2015
Nova Pilbeam was a great lost figure of British cinema – lost because she last appeared on screen in 1948, and on stage in 1951 ... Edna Best and Leslie Banks played a couple who learn about an impending assassination and are forced to keep quiet when their young daughter (Pilbeam) is abducted by a characteristically creepy Peter Lorre ... It won her the Film Weekly medal for best performance in a British film ... They married in London in 1939....

Dame Edna on Fame, the Prostate Olympics and Her Glorious Goodbye

Edit Huffington Post 20 Mar 2015
Dame Edna Everage's "possums" near and far might be fretting over the news that the savage, self-proclaimed international superstar is taking a bow after her current U.S ... After all, Dame Edna has surpassed expectations and withstood the fickle fate of time--six decades have passed in fact, since the character first appeared in a little theater in Melbourne. In between performances for "Dame Edna's Glorious Goodbye ... Dame Edna ... Dame Edna....

OBU Recognizes Retirees for 46 Years of Service (Oklahoma Baptist University)

Edit noodls 19 May 2014
(Source. Oklahoma Baptist University). May 19, 2014. OBU recognized two retiring faculty and staff members during the annual Awards Convocation Wednesday, May 7, in Raley Chapel's Potter Auditorium, and during Spring Commencement May 16. Cynthia Hicks and Dr. John Nichols were honored for a combined 46 years of service at OBU ... Dr. Nichols will be sorely missed, but we wish him and his wife Edna all the best in his well-earned retirement....

TCM to air Irish themed classics St. Patrick's Day

Edit The Examiner 16 Mar 2014
Patrick's Day, cable television's Turner Classic Movies channel is your best resource ... until 8 p.m. on Monday March 17 ... He discovers an old flame (Edna Best) is now the wife of a fellow officer ("Frankenstein's" Colin Clive) and complications ensue ... Arlene Dahl co-stars in this song filled Oscar nominee for Best Music ... Francis Ford Coppola directed this Oscar nominee for Best Sound and Best Music ... ....

Colorful performances from Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Concert Artists of Baltimore

Edit Baltimore Sun 10 Feb 2014
Last weekend found two of the area's orchestral ensembles in fine form. Concert Artists of Baltimore offered an imaginative mix of standard and far-from-standard fare Saturday night at the Gordon Center ... (I'd sure love to hear that in concert someday -- maybe with the whole audience being invited to do the scream at the very point where Edna Best, in the 1934 film, and Doris Day, in the 1956 remake, help thwart an assassination.)....

British Actress Sarah Marshall dies at age 80

Edit Celebrity Café 21 Jan 2014
The actress, born in London, was best known to science fiction and theater fans. Marshall was the daughter of British actors Herbert Marshall and Edna Best....

Broadway star Sarah Marshall dies at 80

Edit BBC News 21 Jan 2014
Best known for her stage work, Marshall received a Tony award nomination for her role as Rusty in the 1959 Broadway production of Goodbye, Charlie ... Ponder Heart. Born in London in 1933, Marshall was the daughter of actors Herbert Marshall and Edna Best - and starred opposite her mother in Cyril Ritchard's production of Jane in 1952 ... ....

British Actress Sarah Marshall Dies at 80

Edit IMDb 20 Jan 2014
Marshall was the daughter of noted British actors Herbert Marshall (The Letter, Foreign Correspondent) and Edna Best (The Man Who ......

Benaam (1974)

Edit The Hindu 09 Jan 2014
It ostensibly drew more than just inspiration from Alfred Hitchcock’s original 1934 film (he remade a vastly different version of it in 1956 with James Stewart and Doris Day) “The Man Who Knew Too Much” starring Leslie Banks, Edna Best and Peter Lorre ... He is at his intense best during the scene where he is supposed to inject cyanide into the unconscious journo....
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