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