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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.
Emma Dunn Biography / Wiki
| Name | Emma Dunn |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | 1874-02-26 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 92 |
| Deathday | 1966-12-14 |
Emma Dunn Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Hideaway | Emma Peterson | 1937-08-13 | A poor family receives unwanted houseguests when they’re visited by gangsters looking for a place to hide out…. |
| The Quitter | Cordelia Tilford | 1934-02-05 | When her husband, who founded the town’s crusading local newspaper, doesn’t come back from the French battlefields of World War I, a woman struggles t… |
| The Keeper of the Bees | Margaret Campbell | 1935-07-14 | A severely traumatized World War I veteran, believing that he’s living on borrowed time, comes upon a peaceful little village and meets an old man cal… |
| Manslaughter | Miss Bennett | 1930-07-22 | A spoiled young rich girl is sent to prison for accidentally running down a pedestrian. There she learns about a life and people she had never even im… |
| The Texan | Señora Doña Marguerita Ibarra | 1930-05-10 | Outlaw Llano Kid poses as a rich Mexican widow’s son and falls in love with a cousin…. |
| Pied Piper Malone | Mother Malone | 1924-02-04 | Pied Piper Malone (1924)… |
| Minesweeper | Mom Smith | 1943-11-10 | A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins. He re-enlists under an assumed name, and is… |
| The Wet Parade | Mrs. Chilcote | 1932-03-26 | The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton fami… |
| It’s Tough to Be Famous | ‘Moms’ McClenahan | 1932-04-02 | Scotty, an unwilling Navy war hero is cast into the limelight. He wants to get married and be an engineer, but is forced to fulfil the expectations of… |
| Morals for Women | Mrs. Hutson | 1931-10-24 | A desperate woman turns to prostitution but is saved by true love…. |
| Flirtation | Mrs. Poole | 1934-11-09 | A naive farmer encounters a beautiful burlesque dancer on the streets of New York and agrees to pose as her husband during her mother’s visit…. |
| Side Street | Nora O’Farrell | 1929-09-14 | Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger…. |
| Scattergood Meets Broadway | Mirandy Baines | 1941-08-22 | Scattergood finds out that his neighbor, Elly Drew, is going to sell her home to support her son David, an aspiring playwright, who is in New York Cit… |
| Too Young to Marry | Mrs. Bumpstead | 1931-05-03 | In this comedy drama set in a small town, a milque-toast gets a backbone and stands up to his overbearing wife. Only one of his daughters is on his si… |
| Private Jones | 1933-03-25 | After America enters World War I, young William “Bill” Jones tries to avoid military service by telling the draft board that he is the sole supporter … | |
| Hero for a Day | Emmy “Moms” Higgins | 1939-10-06 | When a night watchman is mistaken for a wealthy college alumnus, his family and friends help him go along with the pretense…. |
| Second Wife | Mrs. Brown | 1936-08-21 | Kenneth discovers that his son by his first wife is ill in a remote Swiss village, and is forced to leave Wife Number Two alone during childbirth…. |
| Dr. Monica | Mrs. Monahan | 1934-06-23 | A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has impregnated her best friend…. |
| Hell’s House | Emma Clark | 1932-01-30 | A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss…. |
| Circus Girl | Molly | 1937-03-01 | A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival…. |
| The Llano Kid | Doña Teresa | 1939-12-08 | Lora Travers is the only person who can identify hold-up artist The Llano Kid and she persuades him to come in on a scheme with her and her husband. T… |
| You Can’t Fool Your Wife | Mother Fields | 1940-05-21 | Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky tha… |
| A Man of Sentiment | Mrs. John Russell Sr. | 1933-09-15 | A man and woman fall in love at first sight, but everyone in their universe tries to keep them apart except one old fool with a sentimental heart…. |
| Little Orvie | Mrs. Welty | 1940-03-11 | Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to keep the stray dog he befriends…. |
| My Buddy | Mary Ballinger | 1944-10-12 | A priest relates the tale of his friend, a WWI veteran, to the Post-War Planning Committee. Unable to get a job upon his return from the war, he puts … |
| One Crowded Night | Ma Matthews | 1940-08-09 | The future of a group of strangely connected lives is determined on one crucial night at a dinky motel in the desert…. |
| Scattergood Baines | Mirandy Baines | 1941-02-21 | Young Scattergood Baines arrives in the small New England town of Coldriver. Through some shrewd business maneuvering, he manages to open up a hardwar… |
| Scattergood Pulls the Strings | Mirandy Baines | 1941-05-23 | Small-town store owner Scattergood Baines helps a runaway boy find his father, who has escaped after being unjustly imprisoned, and a young chemist wh… |
| Blessed Event | Mrs. Roberts | 1932-09-10 | A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press…. |
| The Bad Sister | Mrs. Madison | 1931-03-29 | Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father’s endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the … |
| The Harvester | Granny Moreland | 1936-04-18 | In a small town in Indiana in the 1890s, the domineering and ambitious Mrs. Biddle arranges a marriage between her spoiled daughter Thelma and the tow… |
| The Guilty Generation | Nina Palmero | 1931-11-19 | The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents’ notoriety…. |
| Hoosier Holiday | Molly Baker | 1943-09-13 | During World War II three brothers go to enlist in the Air Force, but since they’re farmers they’re told they’re needed at home more than in the servi… |
| The Penalty | ‘Ma’ McCormick | 1941-03-13 | In this crime drama, a ruthless gangster’s son is soon following in his father’s footsteps. When his daddy kills an FBI agent and a cabby, the boy see… |
| Dr. Kildare’s Strange Case | Mrs. Martha Kildare | 1940-04-12 | Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont…. |
| Are These Our Parents? | Ma Henderson | 1944-06-27 | A mother’s preference for partying, boozing and running around with an assortment of sleazy characters results in her neglecting her nubile teenage da… |
| Son of Frankenstein | Amelia | 1939-01-13 | One of the sons of Frankenstein finds his father’s monster in a coma and revives him, only to find out he is controlled by Ygor who is bent on revenge… |
| The Talk of the Town | Mrs. Shelley | 1942-08-20 | When the Holmes Woolen Mill burns down, political activist Leopold Dilg is jailed for arson and accidental murder. Escaping, Leopold hides out in the … |
| Life with Father | Margaret | 1947-09-13 | A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost…. |
| Ladies in Retirement | Sister Theresa | 1941-09-09 | Ellen Creed is a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English countryside. When Ellen’s eccentric sisters visit … |
| It’s Great to Be Alive | Mrs. Wilton | 1933-07-08 | An aviator who crash landed on an island in the South Pacific returns home to find that he is the last fertile man left on Earth after an epidemic of … |
| Ladies Crave Excitement | Mrs. Phelan | 1935-06-21 | Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures…. |
| This Modern Age | Margaret Blake | 1931-08-29 | A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love…. |
| Thanks for the Memory | Mrs. Platt | 1938-11-11 | Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Merrick’s publish… |
| Letty Lynton | Mrs. Darrow | 1932-05-13 | Socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South America, when she strikes up a shipboard romance with… |
| Young Dr. Kildare | Mrs. Martha Kildare | 1938-10-14 | A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his k… |
| The Prodigal | Mrs. Farraday | 1931-02-21 | An aspiring singer, who has fallen on hard times and is now living as a hobo, returns to his wealthy southern family…. |
| Bad Company | Emma | 1931-11-08 | A young woman showered with gifts has no idea her lawyer boyfriend works for a gangster…. |
| When You’re in Love | Mrs. Hamilton | 1937-02-12 | When You’re in Love is a 1937 musical film starring Grace Moore, Cary Grant, and Thomas Mitchell. Moore sings “Minnie the Moocher” in one scene. She a… |
| Dr. Kildare Goes Home | Mrs. Martha Kildare | 1940-09-06 | A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic…. |
| Three Loves Has Nancy | Mrs. Briggs | 1938-09-02 | A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men…. |
| Cowboy from Brooklyn | Ma Hardy | 1938-07-09 | A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot…. |
| Half a Sinner | Granny Gladden | 1940-04-05 | Although young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to take a walk on the wild side, splurging on some f… |
| This Is the Life | Mrs. Davis | 1935-10-07 | A popular child star, exploited and overworked by her greedy guardians, decides enough is enough–and takes it on the lam…. |
| Calling Dr. Kildare | Mrs. Martha Kildare | 1939-04-28 | Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. Wh… |
| The Woman in White | Mrs. Vesey | 1948-05-07 | A young painter stumbles upon an assortment of odd characters at an English estate where he has been hired to give art lessons to beautiful Laura Fair… |
| Madame X | Rose, Fleuriot’s Houskeeper | 1937-10-01 | An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her i… |
| Dr. Kildare’s Wedding Day | Mrs. Martha Kildare | 1941-08-22 | A variety of predicaments arise to distract Dr. Kildare from his wedding to Nurse Mary Lamont…. |
| George White’s 1935 Scandals | Aunt Jane | 1935-03-29 | A Brodway producer discovers new talent in a small Georgia town and brings them to New York for his new show…. |
| The Cowboy and the Lady | Ma Hawkins | 1938-11-17 | Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off f… |
| The Secret of Dr. Kildare | Mrs. Martha Kildare | 1939-11-24 | Intern Kildare (Lew Ayres) heals a millionaire’s daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) into taking a vacation…. |
| The Great Dictator | Mrs. Jaeckel | 1940-10-15 | Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel’s regime…. |
| Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Martha | 1941-01-31 | Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her? T… |
| The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Doña Mercedes | 1944-02-11 | A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the lif… |
| Broken Lullaby | Frau Miller | 1932-01-24 | A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each h… |
| Another Face | Sheila’s Mother (uncredited) | 1935-12-20 | The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his new face. He learned about women from her!… |
| The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood | Mrs. Sarah Cohen | 1932-03-27 | The Cohens and the Kellys invade a Hollywood studio after Kitty becomes the darling of the studio…. |
| Dark Hazard | Mrs. Mayhew | 1934-01-31 | Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valeri… |
| Little Big Shot | Orphanage Matron | 1935-09-07 | A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster’s precocious daughter…. |
| The Duke of West Point | Jack’s Mother | 1938-12-29 | A cocky new West Point cadet from Cambridge is given the cold shoulder by his classmates because of his rule-breaking antics…. |
| Rise and Shine | Mrs. Murray | 1941-11-21 | The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football star in the game… |
| Babes on Broadway | Mrs. Williams | 1941-12-31 | Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them any chance to perform. Instead, they decide to put up th… |
| The Glass Key | ‘Mom’ Madvig | 1935-06-15 | When Paul Madvig, a successful politician who fights his rivals to seize the city, becomes implicated in a murder, Ed Beaumont, his friend and right-h… |
| High School | Mrs. O’Neill | 1940-01-26 | A teenager who’s been raised and home-schooled at her father’s Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when she’… |
| Each Dawn I Die | Mrs. Ross | 1939-07-22 | A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter’s criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the re… |
| Seven Keys to Baldpate | Mrs. Quimby | 1935-12-13 | A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things … |
| It Happened Tomorrow | Mrs. Keaver (uncredited) | 1944-03-31 | A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day’s paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new… |
| The Mad Martindales | Agnes | 1942-05-15 | A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father’s art treasures…. |
| Lord Jeff | Mrs. Briggs | 1938-06-17 | Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and steal jewelry from exclusive shops. During a a ca… |
| Under Eighteen | Mrs. Evans (uncredited) | 1931-01-02 | Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. De… |
| Hard to Handle | Mrs. Hawks (uncredited) | 1933-01-28 | A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads…. |
| Dance, Girl, Dance | Mrs. Simpson | 1940-08-30 | Judy O’Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career… |
| Grand Slam | Reporter | 1933-02-22 | A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a “system” for winning at contract bridge…. |
| The Monster and the Girl | Aunt Della | 1941-02-28 | After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape … |
| The Emperor’s Candlesticks | Anna – Olga’s Housekeeper | 1937-07-02 | Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia…. |
| Waikiki Wedding | Mother | 1937-03-23 | Tony Marvin is a laid back but incredibly successful promoter and fair-haired boy for J. P. Todhunter’s pineapple company located in beautiful Hawaii…. |
| The Hoodlum Saint | Maggie | 1946-04-04 | A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it’s much more difficult to find work than he expected. … |
| Varsity Show | Mrs. Smith | 1937-09-04 | Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won’t permit “swing” music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big Broadw… |
| Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Mrs. Meredith (uncredited) | 1936-04-09 | Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the bi… |
| I Married a Witch | Wife of Justice of the Peace (uncredited) | 1942-10-30 | Rocksford, New England, 1672. Puritan witch hunter Jonathan Wooley is cursed after burning a witch at the stake: his descendants will never find happi… |
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