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