Ann Shoemaker
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Ann Shoemaker was an American character actress whose prolific career spanned over five decades across theater, radio, film and television. She appeared in roughly 70 films and TV movies between 1928 and 1976, frequently portraying refined, commanding or maternal figures, most famously playing Sara Delano Roosevelt (the mother of FDR) on both Broadway and in the acclaimed 1960 film adaptation of Sunrise at Campobello.
Known for
Credits
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
as Mrs. Parker
The Fortune Cookie (1966)
as Sister Veronica
My Favorite Wife (1940)
as Ma
Magic Town (1947)
as Ma Peterman
The Reckless Moment (1949)
as Mrs. Catherine Feller (uncredited)
You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
as Mrs. Barton
Babes in Arms (1939)
as Mrs. Barton
Conflict (1945)
as Nora Grant
Shall We Dance (1937)
as Matron
House by the River (1950)
as Mrs. Ambrose
Stella Dallas (1937)
as Miss Margaret Phillibrown
A Woman's Secret (1949)
as Mrs. Matthews, Brook's Mother
Shockproof (1949)
as Dr. Daniels (Uncredited)
Above Suspicion (1943)
as Aunt Ellen
Alice Adams (1935)
as Mrs. Adams
Phantoms, Inc. (1945)
as Mrs. Martha Kenneson
Sitting Pretty (1948)
as Mrs. Ashcroft (uncredited)
Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944)
Actor
Cheating Cheaters (1934)
as Mrs. Grace Palmer
Strike Up the Band (1940)
as Mrs. Connors
Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
as Sara Delano Roosevelt
They All Come Out (1939)
as Dr. Ellen Hollis
The Farmer's Daughter (1940)
as Mrs. Bingham
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur (1976)
as Mrs. Wallace
An Angel from Texas (1940)
as Addie Lou Coleman
What a Woman (1943)
as Senator's Wife (uncredited)
Chance at Heaven (1933)
as Mrs. Harris
A Dog of Flanders (1935)
as Ilse Cogez
Almost a Gentleman (1939)
as Mrs. Thompson
They Won't Forget (1937)
as Mrs. Mountford
Stranded (1935)
as Mrs. Tuthill
Man from Frisco (1944)
as Martha Kennedy
Sins of Man (1936)
as Anna Engel
The Return of the Whistler (1948)
as Mrs. Barkley
The Marines Fly High (1940)
as Mrs. Hill
Middle of the Night (1954)
as Millie
Ellery Queen, Master Detective (1940)
as Lydia Braun
The Life of the Party (1937)
as Countess Martos
Cross Country Cruise (1934)
as Mrs. O'Shaughnessy (Uncredited)
Wallflower (1948)
as Mrs. James
It's Murder (1944)
as Mrs Nelson
Boogie Woogie (1945)
as Mrs. Stumplefinger
Romance of the Redwoods (1939)
as Mother Manning
What a Blonde (1945)
as Mrs. DaFoe
Roberta (1969)
as Aunt Minnie
Dr. Monica (1934)
as Mrs. Hazlitt
Curtain Call (1940)
as Mrs. Middleton
The Girl from Avenue A (1940)
as Mrs. Maddox
Scattergood Pulls the Strings (1941)
as Mrs. Downs
Seventeen (1940)
as Mary Baxter