Edith Barrett
Biography
Edith Barrett was an American actress who became a romantic star on Broadway and in New England summer stock during the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, she entered show business at 16 in Walter Hampden's production of Cyrano de Bergerac and appeared with Hampden in Caponsacchi. In the 1930s she performed with Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre troupe. Her Broadway roles included Pompelia in Caponsacchi and Sara Moonlight in Mrs. Moonlight, which she toured more than 500 times; a New York Times review of that performance carried the headline A Star Is Born. She played Anne Brontë in Moor Born and Katherine O'Shea in Parnell. Barrett began her Hollywood career as a character actress in Ladies in Retirement (1941). She was best remembered as Mrs. Rand in I Walked with a Zombie (1943) and also appeared in The Song of Bernadette (1943), Jane Eyre (1943), and Ruthless (1948). She retired after The Swan (1956) and died in 1977.
73years old at death
- Born Roxbury
- Died Albuquerque
- Star sign: CapricornLast day of the sign, on the Aquarius cusp
- Also credited as Edith Barrett Price and Edith Barrett Williams
Movie Career
- Films
- 9
- Career span
- 15 years1941 to 1956
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First role
Barrett's first starring role was Pompelia in Caponsacchi, a production that ran for five seasons. Her most famous roles also include Sara Moonlight in the 1929 play Mrs. Moonlight by Benn Levy.
A change of course
After often playing the romantic heroine on Broadway, Barrett began her Hollywood career in 1941 as a character actress in Ladies in Retirement, a film noir directed by Charles Vidor.
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Charles Vidor directed two of these films. Six actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
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Charles VidorDirector, 2 films, 1941 to 1956
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