List of the best Edna Best movies: South Riding(1938), Swiss Family Robinson(1940), The Key(1934), The Late George Apley(1947), The Man Who Knew Too Much(1934), Intermezzo(1939) ... ...
Drama
UK
1938
84 Minutes
Ralph Richardson Edna Best Edmund Gwenn Ann Todd John Clements Marie Lohr Milton Rosmer Glynis Johns
"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, ... See full summary »
Adventure
USA
1940
92 Minutes
Thomas Mitchell Edna Best Freddie Bartholomew Terry Kilburn Tim Holt Baby Bobby Quillan Christian Rub John Wray Herbert Rawlinson
mother father son brother sailor heartwarming london ship deserted island family home stranded survival family shipwreck isolation adventure quest 1810s
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.
Drama
USA
1934
82 Minutes
Norah Kerr
William Powell Edna Best Colin Clive Hobart Cavanaugh Henry O'Neill Phil Regan Donald Crisp J.M. Kerrigan Arthur Treacher Maxine Doyle Arthur Aylesworth
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 ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1947
98 Minutes
Catherine Apley
Ronald Colman Peggy Cummins Edna Best Vanessa Brown Richard Haydn Charles Russell Nydia Westman
father son cousin daughter boyfriend wife amusing confident playful boston household club new york city family tradition social standing prejudice courtship rivalry transformation
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!), ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1934
75 Minutes
Jill Lawrence
Leslie Banks Peter Lorre Edna Best Frank Vosper Hugh Wakefield Nova Pilbeam Pierre Fresnay Cicely Oates D.A. Clarke-Smith George Curzon Henry Oscar
mother father daughter spy assassin tense suspenseful thrilling st. moritz england hotel london albert hall government secrets espionage kidnapping family murder adventure pursuit
An ordinary British couple vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassination.
Romance
USA
1939
70 Minutes
Margit
Leslie Howard Ingrid Bergman Edna Best John Halliday Cecil Kellaway Enid Bennett Ann E. Todd Douglas Scott Eleanor Wesselhoeft Marie Flynn
pianist daughter wife son violinist engaging melodramatic stockholm new york city affair music family love triangle forbidden love temptation 1930s
A violinist's piano accompanist retires. He hears his daughter's piano teacher/Ingrid Bergman play and asks her to play on his next int'l tour. They fall in love.