Emma Dunn
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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.
Known for
Credits
The Great Dictator (1940)
as Mrs. Jaeckel
Waikiki Wedding (1937)
as Mother
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
as Martha
Mother (1914)
as Mrs. Wetherell
Son of Frankenstein (1939)
as Amelia
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
as Mrs. Meredith (uncredited)
I Married a Witch (1942)
as Wife of Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
as Mrs. Simpson
Manslaughter (1930)
as Miss Bennett
The Bad Sister (1931)
as Mrs. Madison
When You're in Love (1937)
as Mrs. Hamilton
The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937)
as Anna - Olga's Housekeeper
The Talk of the Town (1942)
as Mrs. Shelley
Babes on Broadway (1941)
as Mrs. Williams
The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
as Ma Hawkins
The Wet Parade (1932)
as Mrs. Chilcote
Broken Lullaby (1932)
as Frau Miller
Ladies in Retirement (1941)
as Sister Theresa
Ladies Crave Excitement (1935)
as Mrs. Phelan
Three Loves Has Nancy (1938)
as Mrs. Briggs
The Hoodlum Saint (1946)
as Maggie
Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
as Mrs. Borden
It Happened Tomorrow (1944)
as Mrs. Keaver (uncredited)
The Monster and the Girl (1941)
as Aunt Della (uncredited)
The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939)
as Martha Kildare
Under Eighteen (1932)
as Mrs. Evans (uncredited)
Little Big Shot (1935)
as Orphanage Matron
Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935)
as Mrs. Quimby
It's Tough to Be Famous (1932)
as 'Moms' McClenahan
Each Dawn I Die (1939)
as Mrs. Ross
Madame X (1937)
as Rose, Fleuriot's Houskeeper
Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day (1941)
as Mrs. Martha Kildare
This Is the Life (1935)
as Mrs. Davis
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940)
as Martha Kildare
Minesweeper (1943)
as Mom Smith
Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940)
as Mrs. Martha Kildare
Elmer, the Great (1933)
as Mrs. Kane
Grand Slam (1933)
as Reporter
Rise and Shine (1941)
as Mrs. Murray
Thanks for the Memory (1938)
as Mrs. Platt
Side Street (1929)
as Nora O'Farrell
The Woman in White (1948)
as Mrs. Vesey
Life with Father (1947)
as Margaret
Dr. Monica (1934)
as Mrs. Monahan
Calling Dr. Kildare (1939)
as Mrs. Martha Kildare
Bad Company (1931)
as Emma
The Postman Didn't Ring (1942)
as Martha Carter
Lord Jeff (1938)
as Mrs. Briggs
Young Dr. Kildare (1938)
as Mrs. Martha Kildare
Hoosier Holiday (1943)
as Molly Baker
Blessed Event (1932)
as Mrs. Roberts
Varsity Show (1937)
as Mrs. Smith
The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood (1932)
as Mrs. Sarah Cohen
Yesterday's Heroes (1940)
as Aunt Winnie
Letty Lynton (1932)
as Mrs. Darrow
Half a Sinner (1940)
as Granny Gladden
Dark Hazard (1934)
as Mrs. Mayhew
My Buddy (1944)
as Mary Ballinger
High School (1940)
as Mrs. O'Neill
The Glass Key (1935)
as 'Mom' Madvig
Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938)
as Ma Hardy
Circus Girl (1937)
as Molly
The Guilty Generation (1931)
as Nina Palmero
This Modern Age (1931)
as Margaret Blake
You Can't Fool Your Wife (1940)
as Mother Fields
The Keeper of the Bees (1935)
as Margaret Campbell
The Duke of West Point (1938)
as Mrs. West
A Man of Sentiment (1933)
as Mrs. John Russell Sr.
Little Orvie (1940)
as Mrs. Welty
The Mad Martindales (1942)
as Agnes
Hard to Handle (1933)
as Mrs. Hawks (uncredited)
Another Face (1935)
as Sheila's Mother (uncredited)
The Texan (1930)
as Señora Doña Marguerita Granadas-Ibarra
Old Lady 31 (1920)
as Angie Rose
Scattergood Meets Broadway (1941)
as Mirandy Baines
Too Young to Marry (1931)
as Mrs. Bumpstead
It's Great to Be Alive (1933)
as Mrs. Wilton
When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1942)
as Ma Flanagan
Pied Piper Malone (1924)
as Mother Malone
George White's 1935 Scandals (1935)
as Aunt Jane
Flirtation (1934)
as Mrs. Poole
The Penalty (1941)
as 'Ma' McCormick
Second Wife (1936)
as Mrs. Brown
Scattergood Pulls the Strings (1941)
as Mirandy Baines
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944)
as Doña Mercedes
The Prodigal (1931)
as Mrs. Farraday
Scattergood Baines (1941)
as Mirandy Baines
Morals for Women (1931)
as Mrs. Hutson
One Crowded Night (1940)
as Ma Matthews
Private Jones (1933)
as Mrs. Jones
The Llano Kid (1939)
as Doña Teresa
Hell's House (1932)
as Emma Clark
Hero for a Day (1939)
as Emmy "Moms" Higgins
Compromised (1931)
as Mrs. Squires
The Quitter (1934)
as Cordelia Tilford
The Harvester (1936)
as Granny Moreland
Hideaway (1937)
as Emma Peterson
Are These Our Parents? (1944)
as Ma Henderson