Known for her genteel ways and stately beauty in tea service drama, British actress Nora Swinburne was born Elinore Johnson on July 24, 1902, in Bath, England. Performing on stage as both actress and dancer

By the advent of sound, Ms. Swinburne had been related to opulent supports in films, usually appearing as ladylike mothers or socialite types in plush Gainsborough dramas. Some of her later films would include Perfect Understanding (1933), The Citadel  (1938) with Robert Donat & Rosalind Russell, The Man in Grey  (1943) with Margaret Lockwood & James Mason, Man of Evil (1944) with Phyllis Calvet & Stewart Granger , Jassy (1947), Christopher Columbus (1949) with Fredric March, Quartet (1948) with Dirk Bogarde, The River (1951) (with husband Knight), Quo Vadis (1951) (as Pomponia) with Robert Taylor & Deborah Kerr, Helen of Troy (1956) (as Hecuba), Decision at Midnight (1965) (again with Knight) and Martin Landau, Interlude (1968) and Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) with Richard Burton.

Divorced from actor Francis Lister, she was married to actor Edward Ashley at the time she met Esmond Knight while appearing in the play "Wise Tomorrow" in 1937. Actually, both actors were married at the time, but they engaged in a long, discreet affair until both were free. They finally married in the late 1940s and enjoyed a long union together

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