Henryetta Edwards

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Henryetta Edwards
Born
Chrissie Henryetta Edwards

1 January 1926
Chertsey, Surrey
Died1 May 2021 (aged 95)
Parent(s)Henry Edwards, Chrissie White

Henryetta Edwards (1 January 1926 – 1 May 2021) was a British actress on the London stage, and in films and television, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s.

Early life[]

Edwards was born in Chertsey, Surrey, the daughter of actors Henry Edwards and Chrissie White.[1]

Career[]

London stage roles for Edwards included parts in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (1947), I Remember Mama (1948),[2] Terrence Rattigan's The Browning Version and Harlequinade (original casts, 1948–1949),[3] An Angel of No Importance (1949),[4] The Trial (1950), Treasure Hunt (1950),[5] The Attenborough Home (1953), Murder Story (1954), and Sailor Beware! (1955–1958).[6]

Edwards appeared in the films Squibs (1935, directed by her father), She Shall Have Murder (1950),[7] and The Feminine Touch (1956, a hospital drama from Ealing Studios;[8] marketed as The Gentle Touch in the United States, and A Lamp is Heavy in Canada).[9][10] She had roles in television adaptations of Lady from Edinburgh (1948), The Browning Version (1949), Harlequinade (1953), and Sailor Beware! (1956); she also appeared in "The Invisible Knife", an episode of the Boris Karloff series Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1955).[11]

Personal life[]

Edwards died in 2021, aged 95 years, in England.[12][13]

References[]

  1. ^ Murphy, Robert (2019-07-25). Directors in British and Irish Cinema: A Reference Companion. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-83871-532-8.
  2. ^ Brown, Ivor (1948-03-07). "Mum's The Word". The Observer. p. 2. Retrieved 2021-12-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "The Browning Version and Harlequinade". Billboard. March 12, 1949. p. 55.
  4. ^ Wearing, J. P. (2014-08-22). The London Stage 1940-1949: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 313, 358, 386–387, 473. ISBN 978-0-8108-9306-1.
  5. ^ "Opera House: 'Treasure Hunt'". The Guardian. 1950-09-26. p. 3. Retrieved 2021-12-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Wearing, J. P. (2014-09-16). The London Stage 1950-1959: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 14–15, 224, 315, 357. ISBN 978-0-8108-9308-5.
  7. ^ Gifford, Denis (2016-04-01). British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set - The Fiction Film/The Non-Fiction Film. Routledge. p. 576. ISBN 978-1-317-74063-6.
  8. ^ "Ealing Studios: The Feminine Touch". Evening Standard. 2016-01-07. pp. A48. Retrieved 2021-12-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ Duguid, Mark; Freeman, Lee; Johnston, Keith; Williams, Melanie (2012-10-31). Ealing Revisited. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 192, 278–279. ISBN 978-1-84457-719-4.
  10. ^ Blum, Daniel (1958). Screen World. Biblo & Tannen Publishers. p. 201. ISBN 978-0-8196-0264-0.
  11. ^ Nollen, Scott Allen; Nollen, Yuyun Yuningsih (2021-01-04). Karloff and the East: Asian, Indian, Middle Eastern and Oceanian Characters and Subjects in His Screen Career. McFarland. pp. 391–392. ISBN 978-1-4766-4086-0.
  12. ^ "Obituary: Henryetta Edwards". The Stage. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  13. ^ "Henryetta Edwards, ingénue of stage and screen in the 1940s and 1950s – obituary". The Telegraph. 2021-06-22. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2021-12-12.

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