Nova Pilbeam(1919-2015)

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Nova Pilbeam was a famous child actress on stage and screen in the UK. Her biggest successes were her two movies directed by Alfred Hitchcock: The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) and this film. She married director Pen Tennyson in 1939, but unfortunately she was widowed less than two years later when he died in WWII. She retired from movies in 1951.

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Young and Innocent

6.8

Erica Burgoyne

1937

The Man Who Knew Too Much

6.7

Betty Lawrence

1934

Nine Days a Queen

6.5

Lady Jane Grey

1936

Three Wise Brides

5.8

Baby Furze

1941

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Actress

The Shining Hour
TV Movie
- Judy Linden
- 1951
Counterblast
6.0
- Tracy Hart
- 1948
The Three Weird Sisters
6.5
- Claire Prentiss
- 1948
Green Fingers
6.1
- Alexandra Baxter
- 1947
This Man Is Mine
5.9
- Phoebe Ferguson
- 1946
Yellow Canary
6.5
- Betty Maitland
- 1943
The Next of Kin
6.8
- Beppie Leemans
- 1942
Banana Ridge
6.0
- Cora Pound
- 1942
Three Wise Brides
5.8
- Baby Furze
- 1941
Pastor Hall
7.2
- Christine Hall
- 1940
Cheer Boys Cheer
5.9
- Margaret Greenleaf
- 1939
Prison Without Bars
TV Movie
- Suzanne, Reformatory Inmate
- 1939
Young and Innocent
6.8
- Erica Burgoyne
- 1937
Nine Days a Queen
6.5
- Lady Jane Grey
- 1936
The Man Who Knew Too Much
6.7
- Betty Lawrence
- 1934

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Born
- November 15, 1919
- Wimbledon, London, England, UK
Died
- July 17, 2015
- Highgate, London, England, UK(undisclosed)
Spouses
Relatives
- Anthony Pilbeam(Sibling)
Other works
Interviewed in the book: "Sixty Voices: Celebrities Recall the Golden Age of British Cinema."
Publicity listings
- 3 Magazine Cover Photos

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Trivia
David O. Selznick saw her potential in Alfred Hitchcock's film Young and Innocent (1937) and avidly pushed for her to star in his next film Rebecca (1940). Hitchcock's impression she was too immature for the role, and the sudden collapse of her studio, Gaumont British Picture Corporation, combined to help her lose the part to Joan Fontaine.

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I've heard people who've worked with Alfred Hitchcock say that it was not the most exhilarating experience, and, though I was only about fifteen, I felt something of that. Hitch had everything in his head before he went near the set: therefore one was rather moved around and manipulated, but, having said that, I liked him very much.