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