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