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citizenscreen · 2 months

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Birthday remembrance - Edna Best #botd

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hauntedbystorytelling · 1 year

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Sasha :: British actress Edna Best (1900-1974) as Fay Collen in the play 'Spring Cleaning' at St Martins Theatre, London, 1925. | src Getty Images

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#Sasha #edna best #portrait #monocle #Alexander Stewart #role portrait #fay collen #Porträt #retrato #ritratto #portret #retrat #Bildnis #Rollenporträt #rollenportrat #1920s #spring cleaning

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eclecticpjf · 2 months

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Now watching:

#the man who knew too much #1934 #alfred hitchcock #Leslie Banks #Edna Best #peter lorre

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the-baz · 8 months

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Favorites of the Famous

This is a short post, but hopefully you will enjoy it. I wanted to share an interview that Basil Rathbone did on the weekly radio program Favorites of the Famous, broadcast in May 1952. Host Wayne Howell, a disc jockey in Dallas, Texas, interviewed celebrities about music, including their favorites. During breaks in the interview, the station would play a portion of the celebrity’s favorite piece…

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#Beethoven #Brahms #Edna Best #Jane #music #Prokofiev #Rachmaninoff #radio #Schumann #Shostakovich #Tchaikovsky #violin

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badmovieihave · 10 months

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Bad movie I have The Man Who Knew Too Much 1934

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outoftowninac · 2 years

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POLLY WITH A PAST

1917

Polly With a Past is a three act play by George Middleton and Guy Bolton. It was originally produced by David Belasco and directed by Louis Massen. The play starred Ina Claire.

The play takes place in an apartment in New York City in late July and a summer home in North Hampton, Long Island in early August. It depicts the efforts of two young men to help a shy friend, Rex, win the attention of the aloof woman he loves; they arrange for their young housekeeper, Polly, to pose as a glamorous French rival for Rex's affections, but this leads to romantic complications.

Polly with a Past premiered at Nixon’s Apollo Theatre on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City NJ on June 11, 1917.

Before moving on to Broadway, the play was seen at two more Jersey Shore theatres: The Savoy in Asbury Park, and the Broadway in Long Branch.

The play opened on Broadway on September 6, 1917 at the Belasco Theatre.

The Broadway cast was headed by Ina Claire as Polly, Herbert Yost as Rex (both pictured above), with Winifred Fraser, H. Reeves-Smith, Thomas Reynolds, and Cyril Scott. It ran for nearly a year.

The piece was presented in London in 1921 starring Edna Best and Donald Calthrop, with a supporting cast including Noël Coward, Edith Evans, Henry Kendall, Claude Rains and C. Aubrey Smith, running for three months.

It was adapted for film in 1920 in which Ina Claire reprised her role as Polly Shannon. Clifton Webb was also in the cast. The film is now considered lost.

The film played in Atlantic City at the Bijou Theatre, Boardwalk and South Carolina. Opening in 1903, this was the first movie house in Atlantic City. By 1920 it had been renamed the Cort Theatre. It was was demolished in 1924.

A musical version simply titled Polly played on Broadway in 1929. Archie Leach, who later became known as Cary Grant, was in an out-of-town tryout of the musical. Also in the cast were Fred Allen (in a newly-created part) and June Tripp in the title role. Leach was replaced as Rex by John Hundley for the Broadway run, which opened at the Lyric Theatre on January 8, 1929, and closed after just 15 performances.

#Polly With A Past #Ina Claire #Atlantic City #1917 #Nixon's Apollo Theatre #David Belasco #Belasco Theatre #George Middleton #Guy Bolton #Broadway Play #Noel Coward #Edna Best #Polly

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genevieveetguy · 1 year

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You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself, even if it's people you love.

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1947)

#Joseph L. Mankiewicz #Philip Dunne #Gene Tierney #Rex Harrison #George Sanders #Edna Best #Vanessa Brown #Anna Lee #Robert Coote #Natalie Wood #Isobel Elsom #Victoria Horne #Charles Lang #Bernard Herrmann #Dorothy Spencer #1947

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marbleindex1 · 2 months

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Edna Best (British actress, 1900-1974). Photo by Dorothy Wilding.1925

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therileyandkimmyshow · 2 months

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Podcast Actress Edna Best Golden Age of Radio Tribute

#podcast #radio #nostalgia #otr #talk #golden age #audio #old time radio #actress #Edna Best

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perfettamentechic · 7 months

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18 settembre … ricordiamo …

18 settembre … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2020: GianCarlo Montebello, designer e editore italiano. Nel 1967 insieme alla moglie Teresa Pomodoro fonda GEM-Montebello con cui produce edizioni limitate di importanti artisti, italiani e stranieri. (n. 1941) 2012: Sheila Ryan, attrice americana. A volte viene accreditata con il suo nome da sposata, Sheila Caan. Ha iniziato come modella. È celebre per aver partecipato al film Il duro del Road…