- Edith Barrett
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name = Edith Barrett
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birthname = Edith Williams
birthdate = birth date|1907|1|19
birthplace =Roxbury, Massachusetts
deathdate = death date and age|1977|2|22|1907|1|19
deathplace =Albuquerque, New Mexico
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occupation = Stage,film actress
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notable role = Mrs. Holland in
"I Walked with a Zombie "
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spouse =Vincent Price Edith Barrett (
19 January ,1907 –22 February ,1977 ) was an American film actress.Biography
Barett entered the entertainment industry at age 16 in a staging of
Walter Hampden 's production of "Cyrano de Bergerac". During the 1930s, Edith performed withOrson Welles 'sMercury Theatre troupe.While appearing in the Mercury Theatre 1937 production of "
The Shoemaker's Holiday ", she married leading manVincent Price , a union that lasted until 1948. She and Price had one son, Vincent Barrett Price, born in 1940. Edith's biggest Broadway success was as star of the now-obscure production "Mrs. Moonlight ".Barrett made her first film in 1941, playing the homicidal, half-witted half-sister of
Ida Lupino in "Ladies in Retirement ". Edith's most famous movie role was that of the mother-in-law of the unfortunate Mrs. Holland in "I Walked With a Zombie " (1943), producerVal Lewton 's voodoo version of "Jane Eyre "; ironically, she was seen as Mrs. Fairfax in20th Century-Fox 's adaptation of the real "Jane Eyre" (1944).Edith Barrett retired from films after essaying a minor role in "The Swan" (1956).
elected filmography
* "
Lady for a Night " (1942)
* "I Walked with a Zombie " (1943)
* "The Ghost Ship " (1943)
* "The Song of Bernadette" (1943)
* "Jane Eyre" (1944)
* "The Keys of the Kingdom" (1944)
* "The Swan" (1956)External links
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