EDNA BEST - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH CIRCA 1954 - HFSID 289934
Sale Price $531.25
Reg. $625.00
EDNA BEST
Promotional photograph for Warner Bros. 1940 film A Dispatch from
Reuter's, inscribed in person to collector Saul Goodman.
Inscribed Photograph signed: "To Saul/Edna Best", B/w
8x10. Collectors ink note on verso dates signature: February 27, 1954.
English actress Edna Best (1900-1974) was women's swim
champion of Sussex. Initially a stage performer, she entered films in 1931, and
is best remembered as the mother in the original version of Hitchcock's
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934). Among her other films were
Intermezzo (1939), Swiss Family Robinson (1940) and The Ghost
and Mrs. Muir (1947). Having appeared on London television as early as
1938 (in an adaptation of an Agatha Christie story), she won an Emmy in
1957 for This Happy Breed. Married to actor Herbert Marshall from
1928 to 1940, she was the mother of another actress, Sarah Marshall. Saul
Goodman (1919-2003), a New York business man by day, pursued his love of
film and theatre in the evening, making friends with many celebrities. While
other autograph seekers offered album leaves, Goodman presented stars with
snazzy photographs, a rarity then, to sign in fountain pen. Lightly creased.
Lightly worn. Light surface scratches (not visible head on). Adhesive residue on
verso. Otherwise, fine condition.
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