1. Edith Barrett was a romantic star on Broadway and in the Little Theatre Movement in New England summer stock from the mid-1920s to the late 1930s.
13 Facts About Edith Barrett
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Edith Barrett entered the entertainment industry at age 16 in a staging of Walter Hampden's production of Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Edith Barrett is often mentioned in a troika of Broadway stars of the 1930s alongside Eva Le Gallienne, Katherine Cornell, and sometimes Helen Gahagan.
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Edith Barrett played one of the two half-witted half-sisters of Ida Lupino's homicidal character.
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Edith Barrett's best remembered movie role is possibly Mrs Holland's mother-in-law, Mrs Rand, in the cult classic I Walked with a Zombie, a movie sometimes described as Jane Eyre in the Caribbean.
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Edith Barrett was almost three years younger than her "son" in that film.
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Edith Barrett appeared briefly onscreen with Price twice in The Song of Bernadette and again in Keys of the Kingdom.
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Edith Barrett retired from films after a minor role in The Swan, compiling a filmography of more than 20 films.
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Edith Barrett essayed the role of Sarah Barnhart in a Telephone Time drama entitled Recipe for Success in 1958.
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Edith Barrett went on to perform in series such as Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, Lux Video Theatre, and Northwest Passage.
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Edith Barrett dedicated much of her later life to supporting fellow New York stage actresses who struggled in the motion picture and television industries.
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Edith Barrett resided in Santa Monica, California from 1946 to 1976.
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Edith Barrett died at age 70 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, living near her son, V B Price, and his family.