Ann Shoemaker
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Ann Shoemaker was an American character actress whose prolific career spanned over five decades across theater, radio, film and television. She appeared in roughly 70 films and TV movies between 1928 and 1976, frequently portraying refined, commanding or maternal figures, most famously playing Sara Delano Roosevelt (the mother of FDR) on both Broadway and in the acclaimed 1960 film adaptation of Sunrise at Campobello.
Known for
Credits
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
as Mrs. Parker
The Fortune Cookie (1966)
as Sister Veronica
My Favorite Wife (1940)
as Ma
A Woman's Secret (1949)
as Mrs. Matthews, Brook's Mother
House by the River (1950)
as Mrs. Ambrose
You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
as Mrs. Barton
Magic Town (1947)
as Ma Peterman
Strike Up the Band (1940)
as Mrs. Connors
They All Come Out (1939)
as Dr. Ellen Hollis
The Reckless Moment (1949)
as Mrs. Catherine Feller (uncredited)
Babes in Arms (1939)
as Mrs. Barton
Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944)
Actor
An Angel from Texas (1940)
as Addie Lou Coleman
A Dog of Flanders (1935)
as Ilse Cogez
The Girl from Avenue A (1940)
as Mrs. Maddox
Cheating Cheaters (1934)
as Mrs. Grace Palmer
Shall We Dance (1937)
as Matron
The Return of the Whistler (1948)
as Mrs. Barkley
The Farmer's Daughter (1940)
as Mrs. Bingham
They Won't Forget (1937)
as Mrs. Mountford
Above Suspicion (1943)
as Aunt Ellen
Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
as Sara Delano Roosevelt
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur (1976)
as Mrs. Wallace
Conflict (1945)
as Nora Grant
Ellery Queen, Master Detective (1940)
as Lydia Braun
Romance of the Redwoods (1939)
as Mother Manning
Stella Dallas (1937)
as Miss Margaret Phillibrown
Shockproof (1949)
as Dr. Daniels (Uncredited)
Sitting Pretty (1948)
as Mrs. Ashcroft (uncredited)
The Life of the Party (1937)
as Countess Martos
Chance at Heaven (1933)
as Mrs. Harris
Middle of the Night (1954)
as Millie
The Marines Fly High (1940)
as Mrs. Hill
What a Woman (1943)
as Senator's Wife (uncredited)
Phantoms, Inc. (1945)
as Mrs. Martha Kenneson
Almost a Gentleman (1939)
as Mrs. Thompson
Alice Adams (1935)
as Mrs. Adams
Scattergood Pulls the Strings (1941)
as Mrs. Downs
Dr. Monica (1934)
as Mrs. Hazlitt
What a Blonde (1945)
as Mrs. DaFoe
Stranded (1935)
as Mrs. Tuthill
It's Murder (1944)
as Mrs Nelson
Boogie Woogie (1945)
as Mrs. Stumplefinger
Sins of Man (1936)
as Anna Engel
Seventeen (1940)
as Mary Baxter
Man from Frisco (1944)
as Martha Kennedy
Curtain Call (1940)
as Mrs. Middleton
Wallflower (1948)
as Mrs. James
Roberta (1969)
as Aunt Minnie
Cross Country Cruise (1934)
as Mrs. O'Shaughnessy (Uncredited)