1874-02-24 Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
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.
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The Woman in White | Mrs. Vesey | 1948-05-07 |
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Mourning Becomes Electra | Mrs. Borden | 1947-11-19 |
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Life with Father | Margaret | 1947-09-13 |
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The Hoodlum Saint | Maggie | 1946-04-04 |
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Doña Mercedes | 1944-02-11 |
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My Buddy | Mary Ballinger | 1944-10-12 |
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Are These Our Parents? | Ma Henderson | 1944-06-27 |
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It Happened Tomorrow | Mrs. Keaver (uncredited) | 1944-03-31 |
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Hoosier Holiday | Molly Baker | 1943-09-13 |
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Minesweeper | Mom Smith | 1943-11-10 |
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The Mad Martindales | Agnes | 1942-05-15 |
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I Married a Witch | Wife of Justice of the Peace (uncredited) | 1942-10-30 |
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The Talk of the Town | Mrs. Shelley | 1942-08-20 |
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The Postman Didn't Ring | Martha Carter | 1942-07-03 |
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Ladies in Retirement | Sister Theresa | 1941-09-09 |
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Scattergood Meets Broadway | Mirandy Baines | 1941-08-22 |
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The Penalty | 'Ma' McCormick | 1941-03-13 |
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Babes on Broadway | Mrs. Williams | 1941-12-31 |
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Martha | 1941-01-31 |
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Scattergood Baines | Mirandy Baines | 1941-02-21 |
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The Monster and the Girl | Aunt Della (uncredited) | 1941-02-28 |
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Rise and Shine | Mrs. Murray | 1941-11-21 |
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Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day | Mrs. Martha Kildare | 1941-08-22 |
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Scattergood Pulls the Strings | Mirandy Baines | 1941-05-23 |
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One Crowded Night | Ma Matthews | 1940-08-09 |
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Dr. Kildare's Strange Case | Mrs. Martha Kildare | 1940-04-12 |
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Half a Sinner | Granny Gladden | 1940-04-05 |
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Little Orvie | Mrs. Welty | 1940-03-11 |
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You Can't Fool Your Wife | Mother Fields | 1940-05-21 |
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home | Mrs. Martha Kildare | 1940-09-06 |
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Dance, Girl, Dance | Mrs. Simpson | 1940-08-30 |
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High School | Mrs. O'Neill | 1940-01-26 |
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The Great Dictator | Mrs. Jaeckel | 1940-10-15 |
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Son of Frankenstein | Amelia | 1939-01-13 |
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The Llano Kid | Doña Teresa | 1939-12-08 |
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Each Dawn I Die | Mrs. Ross | 1939-08-19 |
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The Secret of Dr. Kildare | Mrs. Martha Kildare | 1939-11-24 |
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Calling Dr. Kildare | Mrs. Martha Kildare | 1939-04-28 |
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Hero for a Day | Emmy "Moms" Higgins | 1939-10-06 |
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Three Loves Has Nancy | Mrs. Briggs | 1938-09-02 |
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The Cowboy and the Lady | Ma Hawkins | 1938-11-17 |
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Young Dr. Kildare | Mrs. Martha Kildare | 1938-10-14 |
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Lord Jeff | Mrs. Briggs | 1938-06-17 |
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Cowboy from Brooklyn | Ma Hardy | 1938-07-09 |
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Thanks for the Memory | Mrs. Platt | 1938-11-11 |
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The Duke of West Point | Jack's Mother | 1938-12-29 |
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Waikiki Wedding | Mother | 1937-03-23 |
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Circus Girl | Molly | 1937-03-01 |
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Varsity Show | Mrs. Smith | 1937-09-04 |
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Madame X | Rose, Fleuriot's Houskeeper | 1937-10-01 |
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When You're in Love | Mrs. Hamilton | 1937-02-12 |
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Hideaway | Emma Peterson | 1937-08-13 |
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The Emperor's Candlesticks | Anna - Olga's Housekeeper | 1937-07-02 |
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The Harvester | Granny Moreland | 1936-04-18 |
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Second Wife | Mrs. Brown | 1936-08-21 |
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Mrs. Meredith (uncredited) | 1936-04-09 |
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George White's 1935 Scandals | Aunt Jane | 1935-03-29 |
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Seven Keys to Baldpate | Mrs. Quimby | 1935-12-13 |
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Ladies Crave Excitement | Mrs. Phelan | 1935-06-21 |
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Little Big Shot | Orphanage Matron | 1935-09-07 |
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The Glass Key | 'Mom' Madvig | 1935-06-15 |
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Another Face | Sheila's Mother (uncredited) | 1935-12-20 |
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The Keeper of the Bees | Margaret Campbell | 1935-07-14 |
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This Is the Life | Mrs. Davis | 1935-10-07 |
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Flirtation | Mrs. Poole | 1934-11-09 |
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The Quitter | Cordelia Tilford | 1934-02-05 |
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Dark Hazard | Mrs. Mayhew | 1934-01-31 |
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Dr. Monica | Mrs. Monahan | 1934-06-23 |
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Private Jones | Mrs. Jones | 1933-03-25 |
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Grand Slam | Reporter | 1933-02-22 |
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A Man of Sentiment | Mrs. John Russell Sr. | 1933-09-15 |
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Elmer, the Great | Mrs. Kane | 1933-04-29 |
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Hard to Handle | Mrs. Hawks (uncredited) | 1933-01-28 |
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It's Great to Be Alive | Mrs. Wilton | 1933-07-08 |
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Hell's House | Emma Clark | 1932-01-30 |
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Blessed Event | Mrs. Roberts | 1932-09-10 |
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Under Eighteen | Mrs. Evans (uncredited) | 1932-01-02 |
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It's Tough to Be Famous | 'Moms' McClenahan | 1932-04-02 |
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Letty Lynton | Mrs. Darrow | 1932-04-30 |
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The Wet Parade | Mrs. Chilcote | 1932-03-26 |
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Broken Lullaby | Frau Miller | 1932-01-19 |
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The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood | Mrs. Sarah Cohen | 1932-03-27 |
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Compromised | Mrs. Squires | 1931-11-19 |
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Bad Company | Emma | 1931-10-16 |
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The Prodigal | Mrs. Farraday | 1931-02-21 |
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The Guilty Generation | Nina Palmero | 1931-11-19 |
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The Bad Sister | Mrs. Madison | 1931-03-29 |
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This Modern Age | Margaret Blake | 1931-08-29 |
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Morals for Women | Mrs. Hutson | 1931-10-24 |
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Too Young to Marry | Mrs. Bumpstead | 1931-05-03 |
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Manslaughter | Miss Bennett | 1930-07-22 |
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The Texan | Señora Doña Marguerita Ibarra | 1930-05-10 |
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Side Street | Nora O'Farrell | 1929-09-14 |
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Pied Piper Malone | Mother Malone | 1924-02-04 |
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Old Lady 31 | Angie Rose | 1920-05-23 |
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Mother | Mrs. Wetherell | 1914-09-28 |
