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