Edith Atwater

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A respected stage actress, brunette Edith Atwater was another of those performers who never quite managed to break into films. She was trained at the American Laboratory Theatre and began her acting career at the age of eighteen. She was on Broadway from 1931, her carefully coiffed patrician looks and mature manner rather suited to playing well-bred socialites. Her first lead was in a forgotten comedy, "Springtime for Henry" (which has the singular distinction of having its title co-opted by Mel Brooks for Frühling für Hitler (1967) as "Springtime for Hitler"). However, better parts were in store: leads in hit plays like "The Country Wife" (1936), "Susan and God" (1937), "State of the Union" (1945), and, her best role yet, as Maggie Cutler opposite Monty Woolley in "The Man Who Came to Dinner" (1939). Bette Davis eventually got to star in the classic film version, whereas Edith had a just few inconsequential movie bits to show for in the 30's.She didn't make an impact on screen until her role as Henry Daniell's housekeeper Meg Cameron in Val Lewton's brilliant horror thriller Der Leichendieb (1945). Nothing of substance followed until much later, when she popped up as an indomitable, over-protective socialite mother in William Castle's lurid psycho-thriller Die Zwangsjacke (1964). For the most part, however, Edith was typecast in maternal roles, or as nurses or secretaries which she always played believably. More often than not, we'd see her on the small screen, often in recurring roles as in the "Barefoot in the Park" lookalike Teils heiter, teils wolkig (1966), Grace Morton in Peyton Place (1964), or as Aunt Gertrude in The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977).Edith was married to actors Hugh Marlowe and Kent Smith who both predeceased her. - IMDb Mini Biography By: I.S.Mowis

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Releases by Year

Edith Atwater on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1978 to 1978. See the full graphs of the number of Edith Atwater movies released per year from 1978 till 1978.

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Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Edith Atwater has worked on is 6.2.

6.2 / 10

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A man hires a nurse to care for his ailing but nasty and shrewish sister. What he really intends to do, however, is to convince the nurse to join him in a plot to kill her.

4.8/1082 min

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