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