Henryetta Edwards Explained

Henryetta Edwards
Birth Name:	Chrissie Henryetta Edwards
Birth Date:	1 January 1926
Birth Place:	Chertsey, Surrey, England, UK
Death Date:	1 May 2021 (aged 95)
Death Place:	UK
Occupation:	Actress
Parents:	Henry Edwards and 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, in England. She never married.^{[12] [13]}

External links

• • Henryetta Edwards at the British Film Institute
• "Personality: Meet Henry Edwards and Chrissie White" (1946), a British Pathé newsreel profile of Henryetta Edwards and her parents

Notes and References

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