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