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Movies starring Edith Evans have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 64%.
The Nun's Story - released in 1959 - is Edith Evans's highest rated movie, with a score of 74% based on 122 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Edith Evans is Craze - released in 1974 - with a score of 37% based on 2 reviews.
Dame Edith Mary Evans, DBE (8 February 1888 – 14 October 1976) was a British actress. She was known for her work on the British stage. She also appeared in a number of films, for which she received three Academy Award nominations, plus a BAFTA and a Golden Globe award.
Evans was particularly effective at portraying haughty aristocratic ladies, as in two of her most famous roles: Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest (both on stage and in the 1952 film), and Miss Western in the 1963 film of Tom Jones. By contrast, she played a poverty-stricken old woman in one of her most acclaimed film roles, in The Whisperers (1967).
Edith Evans has acted in films with Donald Pleasence, Albert Finney, Laurence Naismith and Hugh Griffith.
Edith Evans has worked with these film directors: Bryan Forbes, Ronald Neame, Tony Richardson and Fred Zinnemann.
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