Barbara Everest
Barbara Mary Everest ( born June 9, 1890 in London, United Kingdom, † February 9, 1968 ibid ) was a British theater and film actress.
Life
Barbara Everest was born in 1890 in London. In 1912, she appeared in Harley Granville Barker's The Voysey Inheritance for the first time - on on the stage. From 1916 to 1922, she starred as actress in 16 British silent films. For ten years then took a movie break. It was not until 1932, she was again in front of the camera, so also in 1937 alongside Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in Gangster, women and diamonds ( Jump for Glory ) directed by Raoul Walsh. 1938 and 1939, she also starred in ten films made for television by the BBC. In 1942 she left London and moved to the United States, where she came for various film studios for use first on Broadway and soon also in Hollywood. It eventually was followed by appearances in Michael Curtiz's ambassador in Moscow ( Mission to Moscow, 1943), or in the literary adaptation The Orphan of Lowood ( Jane Eyre, 1944) Charlotte Brontë's novel based on Jane Eyre.
Throughout her career, Barbara Everest was mostly seen in supporting roles, as well as in George Cukor's The Gaslight ( Gaslight, 1944) with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer, as well as in the decision ( The Valley of Decision ) next Greer Garson and Gregory Peck. Frequently Everest was seen in motherly roles, such as staff or relatives. After the end of World War II, she returned to Britain, where they again repeatedly worked for British television in 1946, including in 1956 for another Jane Eyre adaptation. Even before her last film was released, died Everest in 1968 at the age of 77 years in her hometown.