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1. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
Approved | 75 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
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.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Frank Vosper
Votes: 21,153
2. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
In 1900, a young widow finds her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best
Votes: 20,870
3. Intermezzo (1939)
Approved | 70 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A violinist's piano accompanist retires. He hears his daughter's piano teacher (Ingrid Bergman) play, asks her to play on his next international tour, and they fall in love.
Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Leslie Howard, Edna Best, Ann E. Todd
Votes: 2,901
4. The United States Steel Hour (1953–1963)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
In this live drama series, over two hundred live plays, covering all aspects of society, were shown.
Stars: Richard Kiley, Betsy Palmer, Edward Andrews, Biff McGuire
Votes: 196
5. The Iron Curtain (1948)
Approved | 87 min | Biography, Crime, History
The story of Soviet cypher-clerk Igor Gouzenko who was posted to the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa,Canada in 1943 and defected in 1945 to reveal the extent of Soviet espionage activities directed against Canada.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, June Havoc, Berry Kroeger
Votes: 1,106
6. Swiss Family Robinson (1940)
93 min | Adventure, Family
A family of Swiss origin living in London during the onslaught against Europe by Napolean seeks to leave and emigrate to Australia to nurture their values and raise their sons.
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Thomas Mitchell, Edna Best, Freddie Bartholomew, Terry Kilburn
Votes: 830 | Gross: $1.94M
7. Robert Montgomery Presents (1950–1957)
60 min | Drama
Actor, Producer, and Director Robert Montgomery introduced each telecast, sometimes interviewing one of the stars, and sometimes appearing in the play.
Stars: Robert Montgomery, John Newland, Vaughn Taylor, Elizabeth Montgomery
Votes: 136
8. The Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1956)
60 min | Drama
This live dramatic series featured original stories and adaptations of novels, plays, etc., during its eight-year run. During the first year, the show was sponsored by the Actor's Equity ... See full summary »
Stars: Bert Lytell, Jay Jackson, Bob Stanton, E.G. Marshall
Votes: 137
9. Ford Star Jubilee (1955–1956)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Stars: Noël Coward, Bing Crosby, Barry Sullivan, Raymond Bailey
Votes: 86
10. Love from a Stranger (1938 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, Thriller
A suave ladies man sweeps a working class girl, who has won a lottery, off her feet. She does not yet realize that he is a serial murderer.
Stars: Edna Best, Bernard Lee, Eileen Sharp, Esma Cannon
Votes: 11
11. The Late George Apley (1947)
Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Romance
George and Catherine Apley of Boston lead a proper life in the proper social circle, as did the Apleys before them. After grown daughter Eleanor falls in love with Howard (from New York!), ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Ronald Colman, Vanessa Brown, Richard Haydn, Charles Russell
Votes: 941
12. The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen (1958–1959)
60 min | Drama
Ellery Queen was a mystery writer who assisted his father, a detective with the New York Police Department, in solving murders. Queen's methods were arcane and intellectual rather than ... See full summary »
Stars: George Nader, Les Tremayne, Lee Philips, Ruth Warrick
Votes: 38
13. A Dispatch from Reuters (1940)
Approved | 90 min | Biography, Drama
Starting with a small flock of carrier pigeons, nineteenth-century entrepreneur Julius Reuter turns his small company into Europe's most respected news wire service.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Edna Best, Eddie Albert, Albert Bassermann
Votes: 665
14. South Riding (1938)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, Romance
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 »
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Edna Best, Ralph Richardson, Edmund Gwenn, Ann Todd
Votes: 184
15. The Key (1934)
Approved | 71 min | Drama
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."
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: William Powell, Edna Best, Colin Clive, Hobart Cavanaugh
Votes: 553
16. Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950–1952)
60 min | Drama
Dramatic anthology series presenting plays adopted from Pulitzer Prize winning stories, plays, novels, et cetera.
Stars: Elmer Davis, Charles Dingle, Richard Bishop, Joan Chandler
Votes: 50
17. Escape! (1930)
68 min | Crime, Drama
A convict escapes from a prison.
Director: Basil Dean | Stars: Gerald du Maurier, Mabel Poulton, Ian Hunter, Gordon Harker
Votes: 109
18. The Way of the World (1955– )
Drama
Actress Gloria Lewis, as Linda Porter, is permanent hostess for this daytime drama series, with adaptations of stories appearing in leading women's magazines presented from 6 to 15 episodes... See full summary »
Stars: Gloria Lewis, Leora Thatcher, Sydney Smith, Addison Powell
Votes: 14
19. Prison Without Bars (1938)
Approved | 72 min | Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Corinne Luchaire, Edna Best, Barry K. Barnes, Mary Morris
Votes: 82
20. Faithful Hearts (1932)
64 min | Drama, Romance
A naval officer is forced to leave his girlfriend behind and they lose touch. Years later, when he is engaged to a society girl, his daughter by his now-deceased first love visits him.
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Herbert Marshall, Edna Best, Anne Grey, Athole Stewart
Votes: 51
21. Celanese Theatre (1951–1952)
60 min | Drama
This program consisted of adaptations of high-quality plays written by leading playwrights.
Stars: Ralph Morgan, Philip Coolidge, John Seymour, Wendell Corey
Votes: 49
22. Michael and Mary (1931)
83 min | Drama
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Herbert Marshall, Edna Best, Frank Lawton, Elizabeth Allan
Votes: 26
23. Bachelor's Folly (1931)
80 min | Drama
An ex-convict butler helps a bankrupt horse-owner prove that he did not deliberately lose a race.
Director: T. Hayes Hunter | Stars: Herbert Marshall, Edna Best, Anne Grey, Gordon Harker
Votes: 16
24. Tilly of Bloomsbury (1921)
50 min | Comedy
A Lady objects to her son's love for a boardinghouse-keeper's daughter.
Director: Rex Wilson | Stars: Edna Best, Tom Reynolds, Campbell Gullan, Henry Kendall
25. Berkeley Square (1959 TV Movie)
Fantasy, Romance
Peter Standish (John Kerr) travels back in time to 1780's London, switching places with his ancestor, Peter Standish. There, he meets the Pettigrew family, who lives in the house he will ... See full synopsis »
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Edna Best, Jeannie Carson, John Colicos, Sheila M. Coonan
Votes: 7
26. Beyond the Cities (1930)
70 min | Adventure, Drama
"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 BIOSCOPE, November, 1930.
Director: Carlyle Blackwell | Stars: Carlyle Blackwell, Edna Best, Alexander Field, Lawrence Hanray
Votes: 19
27. Sleeping Partners (1930)
71 min | Comedy
A neglected wife spends the night with a roué after drinking a sleeping draught.
Director: Seymour Hicks | Stars: Seymour Hicks, Edna Best, Lyn Harding, Herbert Waring
28. Loose Ends (1930)
95 min | Crime, Drama
A girl reporter is blackmailed for learning that a man is a freed murderer.
Director: Norman Walker | Stars: Edna Best, Owen Nares, Miles Mander, Adrianne Allen
29. A Couple of Down and Outs (1923)
Drama
An ex-soldier steals his horse to save it from the battlefield, and becomes a tramp.
Director: Walter Summers | Stars: Edna Best, Rex Davis, George Foley, Philip Hewland
Votes: 16
30.
Ford Star Jubilee (1955–1956)
Episode:
This Happy Breed
(1956)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Ten years in the life of A London family. Together they must deal with arguments, the ups and downs of romance, an infestation of raccoons and the approach of WW2.
Directors: Noël Coward, Ralph Nelson | Stars: Noël Coward, Norah Howard, Edna Best, Beulah Garrick
Votes: 13
31.
Celanese Theatre (1951–1952)
Episode:
Old Acquaintance
(1951)
Drama
Old friends Kit Marlowe and Millie Drake adopt contrasting lifestyles: Kit is a single, critically acclaimed author while married Millie writes popular pulp novels.
Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Edna Best, Ruth Chatterton
32.
The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen (1958–1959)
Episode:
The Lecture
(1959)
Drama
Director: Leonard Valenta | Stars: George Nader, Edward Andrews, Edna Best, Judith Evelyn
33.
The Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1956)
Episode:
Magic Morning
(1952)
Drama
A woman seeks success in her marriage as she had gained in her career.
Stars: Edna Best, Paul McGrath
34.
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950–1952)
Episode:
(a) The Pen, (b) You're Not the Type, (c) The Weak Spot
(1951)
Drama
Stars: Robert Allen, Edna Best, Edward Binns, Sidney Blackmer
35.
Robert Montgomery Presents (1950–1957)
Episode:
P.J. Martin and Son
(1955)
Drama
A domineering mother controls the family business with a steely grip--the same one she uses to control her two sons.
Stars: Robert Montgomery, Edna Best, Philippa Bevans, Raymond Bramley
36.
The United States Steel Hour (1953–1963)
Episode:
Counterfeit
(1955)
Comedy, Drama
Incapable of earning an honest penny, a kindly Englishman turns to making counterfeit money instead - so expertly, in fact, that he baffles Scotland Yard for years.
Stars: Edna Best, Boris Karloff, Lucie Lancaster, Jessie Royce Landis
37.
The Way of the World (1955– )
Episode:
The Bewitched Spinster
(1955)
Drama
Stars: Gloria Lewis, Vera Allen, Edna Best, Dean Harens
38.
The Way of the World (1955– )
Episode:
The Bewitched Spinster - Part 2
(1955)
Drama
Stars: Gloria Lewis, Vera Allen, Edna Best, Dean Harens
39.
The Way of the World (1955– )
Episode:
The Bewitched Spinster - Part 3
(1955)
Drama
Stars: Gloria Lewis, Bish Alexander, Jane Alexander, Vera Allen
40.
The Way of the World (1955– )
Episode:
The Bewitched Spinster - Part 4
(1955)
Drama
Stars: Gloria Lewis, Bish Alexander, Jane Alexander, Vera Allen
41.
The Way of the World (1955– )
Episode:
The Bewitched Spinster - Part 5
(1955)
Drama
Stars: Gloria Lewis, Bish Alexander, Jane Alexander, Vera Allen
42.
The Way of the World (1955– )
Episode:
The Bewitched Spinster - Part 6
(1955)
Drama
Stars: Gloria Lewis, Bish Alexander, Jane Alexander, Vera Allen
43.
The Way of the World (1955– )
Episode:
The Bewitched Spinster - Part 7
(1955)
Drama
Stars: Gloria Lewis, Bish Alexander, Jane Alexander, Vera Allen
44.
The Way of the World (1955– )
Episode:
The Bewitched Spinster - Part 8
(1955)
Drama
Stars: Gloria Lewis, Bish Alexander, Jane Alexander, Vera Allen
45.
The Way of the World (1955– )
Episode:
The Bewitched Spinster - Part 9
(1955)
Drama
Stars: Gloria Lewis, Bish Alexander, Jane Alexander, Vera Allen
46.
The Way of the World (1955– )
Episode:
The Bewitched Spinster - Part 10
(1955)
Drama
Stars: Gloria Lewis, Bish Alexander, Jane Alexander, Vera Allen
47.
The Way of the World (1955– )
Episode:
The Bewitched Spinster - Part 11
(1955)
Drama
Stars: Gloria Lewis, Bish Alexander, Jane Alexander, Vera Allen