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The Woman in White

as Mrs. Vesey

1948
Life with Father

as Margaret

1947
My Buddy

as Mary Ballinger

1944
Are These Our Parents?

as Ma Henderson

1944
Minesweeper

as Mom Smith

1943
Hoosier Holiday

as Molly Baker

1943
The Talk of the Town

as Mrs. Shelley

1942
Mr. & Mrs. Smith

as Martha

1941
The Penalty

as 'Ma' McCormick

1941
The Great Dictator

as Mrs. Jaeckel

1940
Half a Sinner

as Granny Gladden

1940
Son of Frankenstein

as Amelia

1939
The Llano Kid

as Doña Teresa

1939
Three Loves Has Nancy

as Mrs. Briggs

1938
The Cowboy and the Lady

as Ma Hawkins

1938
Young Dr. Kildare

as Mrs. Martha Kildare

1938
Cowboy from Brooklyn

as Ma Hardy

1938
When You're in Love

as Mrs. Hamilton

1937
Circus Girl

as Molly

1937
The Harvester

as Granny Moreland

1936
Ladies Crave Excitement

as Mrs. Phelan

1935
The Keeper of the Bees

as Margaret Campbell

1935
Blessed Event

as Mrs. Roberts

1932
The Wet Parade

as Mrs. Chilcote

1932
The Guilty Generation

as Nina Palmero

1931
Manslaughter

as Miss Bennett

1930
The Texan

as Señora Doña Marguerita Ibarra

1930
Side Street

as Nora O'Farrell

1929
Emma Dunn Emma Dunn

Birthday

1874-02-26

Place of Birth

Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Emma Dunn (26 February 1875 – 14 December 1966) was an English character actress on the stage and in motion pictures. Emma Dunn appeared onstage in her early teens, graduating to the London stage for several years and later became a noted Broadway actress. She appeared in the first American production of Ibsen's Peer Gynt (1906) with Richard Mansfield as Peer. She played Peer's mother, Ase, even though she was, in real life, 20 years younger than Mansfield. She appeared in three productions for theatre impresario David Belasco: The Warrens of Virginia (1907), The Easiest Way (1909) and The Governor's Lady (1912). In The Easiest Way, Dunn portrayed Annie, who was black, in blackface. In 1913 Dunn appeared in vaudeville. Dunn made her first film in 1914, a silent film of her 1910 stage success, Mother, directed by Maurice Tourneur. This was Tourneur's first American film. Dunn's second film was 1920's Old Lady 31, reprising the role she played in the 1916 Broadway play of the same name. One more silent film followed in 1924, Pied Piper Malone, before she made her talkie debut in Side Street, co-starring the Moore brothers, Matt, Owen and Tom as her sons. Dunn wrote two books on elocution and speech: Thought Quality in the Voice (1933) and You Can Do It (1947). Emma Dunn was born 26 February 1875, in Birkenhead, England, although she sometimes gave her year of birth as 1883. Dunn married Harry Beresford, an actor who was then known professionally as Harry J. Morgan, in Chicago on 4 October 1897. They divorced on 10 February 1909, in New York City. She was awarded sole custody of their young daughter, Dorothy. On 19 May 1909, Dunn married John W. Stokes (John W. S. Sullivan), an actor, playwright and theatrical manager. They subsequently adopted a second daughter, Helen. The couple divorced sometime between 1923 and Stokes' death in 1931. After suffering a heart attack some months before, Dunn died 14 December 1966, in Los Angeles, California, aged 91.
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