Nova Pilbeam(1919-2015)

Nova Pilbeam was a stage veteran as a child, and in her teen years was given a small but very important role in Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934). Hitchcock later put her in the starring role in Young and Innocent (1937). She was praised for her gifted role in the now-forgotten film about the Tudors Nine Days a Queen (1936), aka "Tudor Rose". After the filming of the true-story movie Pastor Hall (1940), she married Pen Tennyson, a movie director, who tragically was killed in a plane crash in WWII. Pilbeam went back to acting and did mostly World War II and crime movies before her final theatrical movie Counterblast (1948) (which was released in the U.S. as "The Devil's Plot"). Her final appearance was in the TV movie The Shining Hour (1951).