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