Edith Barrett (January 19, 1907 â€" February 22, 1977) was an American
actress.Born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Barrett was the daughter of
Marshall S. P. Williams and Edith Barrett Williams and a granddaughter
of 19th-century American actor Lawrence Barrett. She entered the
entertainment industry at age 16 in a staging of Walter Hampden's
production of Cyrano de Bergerac. At age 19, in 1926, she appeared
with Hampden in Caponsacchi. During the 1930s, she performed with
Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre troupe.While appearing in the Mercury
Theatre 1937 production of The Shoemaker's Holiday, she married
leading man Vincent Price in 1938. The marriage ended in 1948. She and
Price had one son, author/poet and environmental activist Vincent
Barrett Price (born 1940).
actress.Born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Barrett was the daughter of
Marshall S. P. Williams and Edith Barrett Williams and a granddaughter
of 19th-century American actor Lawrence Barrett. She entered the
entertainment industry at age 16 in a staging of Walter Hampden's
production of Cyrano de Bergerac. At age 19, in 1926, she appeared
with Hampden in Caponsacchi. During the 1930s, she performed with
Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre troupe.While appearing in the Mercury
Theatre 1937 production of The Shoemaker's Holiday, she married
leading man Vincent Price in 1938. The marriage ended in 1948. She and
Price had one son, author/poet and environmental activist Vincent
Barrett Price (born 1940).
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