Edwina Booth: Edwina Booth. Actress: Trapped in Tia Juana. American leading actress of the early talkie period, whose ordeal during the production of Trader Horn (1931) led to her retirement and to false rumors of her death. She had some brief stage experience before getting some unimportant film roles. She was given a leading role in the ambitious adventure film Trader Horn and traveled to Africa shoot the film. She contracted an...