- (1925 - 1955) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1925) Stage Play: These Charming People (1925). Comedy.
- (1928) Stage Play: The High Road. Comedy.
- (1931) Stage Play: Melo. Drama. From the French of Henri Bernstein, adapted by Arthur Pollock. Directed by Marcel Varneli. Ethel Barrymore Theatre: 16 Apr 1931- Jun 1931 (closing date unknown/67 performances). Cas: Ruth Abbott (as "Christiane"), Francois Amiard (as "A Maitre D'Hôtel"), Edna Best (as "Romaine Belcroix"), Harry Davenport (as "Dr. Remy"), Henriette Douvier (as "A French Woman"), Stapleton Kent (as "François"), Earle Larimore (as "Pierre Belcroix"), Marie Maurier (as "Another French Woman"), Fuller Mellish (as "A Priest"), Robert Noble (as "A Man"), Basil Rathbone (as "Marcel Blanc"), Arthur Stenning (as "Another Man"), Pierre Vistaud (as "A Gigolo"), Marion Wells (as "Jeanne"), John Worthington (as "A Professional Dancer"). Produced by Lee Shubert and J.J. Shubert.
- (1932) Stage Play: There's Always Juliet. Comedy.
- (1940) Stage Play: Delicate Story.
- (1942) Stage Play: Yankee Point. Comedy. Written by Gladys Hurlbut. Directed by John Cromwell. Longacre Theatre: 23 Nov 1942- 12 Dec 1942 (24 performances). Cast: Arthur Aylesworth (as "Uncle Pete"), Edna Best (as "Mary Adams"), John Cromwell (as "Bob Adams"), Ann Dere (as "Miss Higgins"), John Forsythe (as "Coast Guard") [Broadway debut], Dorothy Gilchrist, Donald McClelland, Elizabeth Patterson, Richard Rudi, Dora Sayers, K.T. Stevens, James Todd. Produced by Edward Choate and Marie Louise Elkins.
- (1949) Stage Play: The Browning Version/Harlequinade.
- (1950) Stage Play: The Heiress. Drama (revival).
- (1950) Stage Play: Captain Brassbound's Conversion. Comedy (revival).
- (1952) Stage Play: Jane.
- (1952) Stage Play: First Lady.
- (1953) Stage Play: The Ladies of the Corridor. Written by Dorothy Parker and Arnaud d'Usseau. Scenic Design and Lighting Design by Ralph Alswang. Directed by Harold Clurman. Longacre Theatre: 21 Oct 1953- 28 Nov 1953 (45 performances). Cast: Vera Allen (as "Mrs. Lauterbach"), Margaret Barker (as "Constance Mercer"), Edna Best (as "Lulu Ames"), Clement Brace (as "Robert Ames"), Lonny Chapman (as "Harry"), Louis Criss (as "Casey"), Betty Field (as "Mildred Tynan"), Kate Harkin (as "Irma"), Harriet E. MacGibbon (as "Mary Linscott"), Walter Matthau (as "Paul Osgood"), Donald McKee (as "Tom Linscott"), Frances Starr (as "Mrs. Nichols"), Shepperd Strudwick (as "Charles Nichols"), Tassle (as "Sassy"), Robert Van Hooton (as "Mr. Humphries"), June Walker (as "Mrs. Gordon"), Carol Wheeler (as "Betsy Ames"). Produced by Walter Fried.
- (1954) Stage Play: Mademoiselle Colombe. Written by Jean Anouilh. Book adapted by Louis Kronenberger. Scenic Design by Boris Aronson. Directed by Harold Clurman. Longacre Theatre: 6 Jan 1954- 27 Feb 1954 (61 performances). Cast: Edna Best (as "Mme. Alexandra"), Julie Harris (as "Colombe"), Sam Jaffe (as "Gourette"), Eli Wallach (as "Julien"), Harry Bannister (as "Gaulois"), Jeanne Jerrems (as "Dancer"), Edward Julien (as "Chiropodist") [Broadway debut], Nehemiah Persoff (as "Hairdresser"), Lee Phillips (as "Dancer"), Edna Preston (as "Mme. Georges"), Mikhail Rasumny (as "Poet-Mine-Own"), Gregory Robins (as "Stagehand"), Frank Silvera (as "Deschamps"), Joanne Taylor (as "Manicurist"), William Windom (as "Edouard"). Produced by Robert L. Joseph and Jay Julien.
- (1954) Stage Play: Quadrille. Romantic comedy.
- (February 1, 1930 - April 1930) She acted in A.A. Milne's play, "Michael and Mary", at the St. James's Theatre in London, England with Herbert Marshall, Olwen Brookes, Margaret Scudamore, Elizabeth Allan and Frank Lawton in the cast.
- (June 1930 - September 1930) She acted in Ferenc Molnár's play, "The Swan", at the St. James's Theatre in London, England with Herbert Marshall, Henrietta Watson, Colin Clive, Margaret Watson, Basil Loder and Irene Vanbrugh in the cast.
- (1936) She acted in HM Harwood Bernstein's play, "The Promise" at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, England with Ralph Richardson, Madge Titheradge and Ann Todd in the cast.
- (1936) She acted in J.B. Priestley's play, "Johnson Over Jordan", at the New Theatre in London, England with Ralph Richardson, Victoria Hopper and Albert Chevalier in the cast. Basil Dean was the director. Benjamin Britten was the musical director.
- (1937) She acted in Joan Roy Byford's play, "The Phantom Light", at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London, England with Gordon Harker, Iris Vandeleur, Herbert Lomas and Atholl Fleming in the cast.
- (1938) She acted in Pat Wallace and Guy Bolton's play, "The Sun Never Sets", at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, London, England with Leslie Banks, Todd Duncan, Adelaide Hall, Stewart Granger, Henry Oscar, Mackenzie Ward, Frank Cochrane, Shelagh Furley, Wally Patch and Charles Farrell in the cast. Basil Dean was the director.
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