Emma Dunn

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: Acting

Born: Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK, 1874-02-24

Died: 1966-12-14

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1914	Mother	Mrs. Wetherell	0
2	1920	Old Lady 31	Angie Rose	0
3	1924	Pied Piper Malone	Mother Malone	50
4	1929	Side Street	Nora O'Farrell	50
5	1930	The Texan	Señora Doña Marguerita Ibarra	58
6	1930	Manslaughter	Miss Bennett	55
7	1931	The Prodigal	Mrs. Farraday	33
8	1931	The Bad Sister	Mrs. Madison	54
9	1931	Too Young to Marry	Mrs. Bumpstead	0
10	1931	This Modern Age	Margaret Blake	60
11	1931	Bad Company	Emma	46
12	1931	Morals for Women	Mrs. Hutson	37
13	1931	The Guilty Generation	Nina Palmero	61
14	1931	Compromised	Mrs. Squires	10
15	1932	Under Eighteen	Mrs. Evans (uncredited)	66
16	1932	Broken Lullaby	Frau Miller	75
17	1932	Hell's House	Emma Clark	51
18	1932	The Wet Parade	Mrs. Chilcote	58
19	1932	The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood	Mrs. Sarah Cohen	0
20	1932	It's Tough to Be Famous	'Moms' McClenahan	57
21	1932	Letty Lynton	Mrs. Darrow	68
22	1932	Blessed Event	Mrs. Roberts	65
23	1933	Hard to Handle	Mrs. Hawks (uncredited)	69
24	1933	Grand Slam	Reporter	37
25	1933	Private Jones	Mrs. Jones	0
26	1933	Elmer, the Great	Mrs. Kane	49
27	1933	It's Great to Be Alive	Mrs. Wilton	50
28	1933	A Man of Sentiment	Mrs. John Russell Sr.	0
29	1934	Dark Hazard	Mrs. Mayhew	54
30	1934	The Quitter	Cordelia Tilford	0
31	1934	Dr. Monica	Mrs. Monahan	48
32	1934	Flirtation	Mrs. Poole	49
33	1935	George White's 1935 Scandals	Aunt Jane	40
34	1935	The Glass Key	'Mom' Madvig	64
35	1935	Ladies Crave Excitement	Mrs. Phelan	45
36	1935	The Keeper of the Bees	Margaret Campbell	60
37	1935	Little Big Shot	Orphanage Matron	60
38	1935	This Is the Life	Mrs. Davis	60
39	1935	Seven Keys to Baldpate	Mrs. Quimby	66
40	1935	Another Face	Sheila's Mother (uncredited)	42
41	1936	Mr. Deeds Goes to Town	Mrs. Meredith (uncredited)	75
42	1936	The Harvester	Granny Moreland	0
43	1936	Second Wife	Mrs. Brown	0
44	1937	When You're in Love	Mrs. Hamilton	67
45	1937	Circus Girl	Molly	40
46	1937	Waikiki Wedding	Mother	55
47	1937	The Emperor's Candlesticks	Anna - Olga's Housekeeper	52
48	1937	Hideaway	Emma Peterson	40
49	1937	Varsity Show	Mrs. Smith	62
50	1937	Madame X	Rose, Fleuriot's Houskeeper	62
51	1938	Lord Jeff	Mrs. Briggs	71
52	1938	Cowboy from Brooklyn	Ma Hardy	40
53	1938	Three Loves Has Nancy	Mrs. Briggs	42
54	1938	Young Dr. Kildare	Mrs. Martha Kildare	65
55	1938	Thanks for the Memory	Mrs. Platt	56
56	1938	The Cowboy and the Lady	Ma Hawkins	61
57	1938	The Duke of West Point	Jack's Mother	38
58	1939	Son of Frankenstein	Amelia	67
59	1939	Calling Dr. Kildare	Mrs. Martha Kildare	61
60	1939	Each Dawn I Die	Mrs. Ross	68
61	1939	Hero for a Day	Emmy "Moms" Higgins	0
62	1939	The Secret of Dr. Kildare	Mrs. Martha Kildare	56
63	1939	The Llano Kid	Doña Teresa	0
64	1940	High School	Mrs. O'Neill	55
65	1940	Little Orvie	Mrs. Welty	70
66	1940	Half a Sinner	Granny Gladden	52
67	1940	Dr. Kildare's Strange Case	Mrs. Martha Kildare	46
68	1940	You Can't Fool Your Wife	Mother Fields	45
69	1940	One Crowded Night	Ma Matthews	40
70	1940	Dance, Girl, Dance	Mrs. Simpson	64
71	1940	Dr. Kildare Goes Home	Mrs. Martha Kildare	68
72	1940	The Great Dictator	Mrs. Jaeckel	83
73	1941	Mr. & Mrs. Smith	Martha	62
74	1941	Scattergood Baines	Mirandy Baines	60
75	1941	The Monster and the Girl	Aunt Della (uncredited)	58
76	1941	The Penalty	'Ma' McCormick	60
77	1941	Scattergood Pulls the Strings	Mirandy Baines	0
78	1941	Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day	Mrs. Martha Kildare	66
79	1941	Scattergood Meets Broadway	Mirandy Baines	0
80	1941	Ladies in Retirement	Sister Theresa	65
81	1941	Rise and Shine	Mrs. Murray	60
82	1941	Babes on Broadway	Mrs. Williams	64
83	1942	The Mad Martindales	Agnes	50
84	1942	The Postman Didn't Ring	Martha Carter	0
85	1942	The Talk of the Town	Mrs. Shelley	73
86	1942	I Married a Witch	Wife of Justice of the Peace (uncredited)	68
87	1943	Hoosier Holiday	Molly Baker	0
88	1943	Minesweeper	Mom Smith	50
89	1944	The Bridge of San Luis Rey	Doña Mercedes	60
90	1944	It Happened Tomorrow	Mrs. Keaver (uncredited)	67
91	1944	Are These Our Parents?	Ma Henderson	0
92	1944	My Buddy	Mary Ballinger	0
93	1946	The Hoodlum Saint	Maggie	52
94	1947	Life with Father	Margaret	66
95	1947	Mourning Becomes Electra	Mrs. Borden	63
96	1948	The Woman in White	Mrs. Vesey	55

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