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May Robson (19 April 1858 – 20 October 1942) was an actress and playwright. A major stage actress of the late 19th and early 20th century, Robson is best known today for the dozens of 1930s motion pictures she appeared in when she was well into her seventies, usually playing cross old ladies with hearts of gold.
May Robson Biography / Wiki
| Name | May Robson |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Date of Birth | 1858-04-19 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 84 |
| Deathday | 1942-10-20 |
May Robson Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Strangers All | Anna Carter | 1935-04-01 | Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children…. |
| You Can’t Buy Everything | Mrs. Hannah Bell | 1934-01-26 | A scorned woman dreams of revenge on the man who betrayed her…. |
| Grand Old Girl | Laura Bayles | 1935-01-15 | An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den…. |
| Granny Get Your Gun | Minerva Hildegard Hatton | 1940-02-10 | An elderly woman turns sheriff to clear her granddaughter of murder charges…. |
| Woman in Distress | Phoebe Tuttle | 1937-01-17 | Investigating rumors that a priceless Rembrandt, believed destroyed years ago, is actually in the possession of an elderly spinster, a male newspaper … |
| Mills of the Gods | Mary Hastings | 1934-12-15 | Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean meet… |
| The Captain’s Kid | Aunt Marcia Prentiss | 1936-11-14 | In this children’s adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk…. |
| 3 Kids and a Queen | Mary Jane ‘Queenie’ Baxter | 1935-10-21 | An eccentric, wealthy spinster, ‘Queenie’ Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order… |
| The She-Wolf | 1931-05-01 | … | |
| A Night Out | Granmum | 1916-01-31 | A grandmother has an adventure for the first time in her life when she decides to have a night out…. |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Aunt Polly | 1938-02-11 | Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witn… |
| Lady for a Day | Apple Annie | 1933-09-13 | Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise, in Spain that she is married and a member of New York’… |
| Lady by Choice | Patricia ‘Patsy’ Patterson | 1934-10-15 | To improve her image, a fan dancer “adopts” an old woman to be her mother…. |
| Straight Is the Way | Mrs. Horowitz | 1934-08-10 | Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies…. |
| One Man’s Journey | Sarah | 1933-08-31 | Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his so… |
| Rainbow on the River | Mrs. Harriet Ainsworth | 1936-12-18 | A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn’t know in New York…. |
| Little Orphan Annie | Mrs. Stewart | 1932-11-04 | Millionaire Daddy Warbucks goes bust in the Great Depression and is forced to abandon his adopted daughter, Annie. While he’s out west working on ano… |
| The Texans | Granna | 1938-08-12 | After the Civil War, an ex-Confederate soldier faces new battles, including the elements and a carpetbagger intent on destroying him…. |
| That’s Right – You’re Wrong | Grandma | 1939-11-24 | J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program … |
| Vanessa: Her Love Story | Judith Paris | 1935-03-01 | The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt…. |
| The Angel of Broadway | Big Bertha | 1927-10-02 | Babe Scott, a cabaret dancer who is constantly searching for sensational material to shock her customers, conceives of burlesquing a Salvation Army gi… |
| A Harp in Hock | Mrs. Banks | 1927-10-10 | A Harp in Hock, also known as The Samaritan, is a lost 1927 American silent melodrama film directed by Renaud Hoffman, produced by DeMille Pictures, a… |
| A Star Is Born | Grandmother Lettie Blodgett | 1937-04-27 | Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her ido… |
| They Made Me a Criminal | Grandma Rafferty | 1939-01-21 | A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk…. |
| Dancing Lady | Dolly Todhunter | 1933-11-24 | Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get… |
| Reckless | Mrs. Granny Leslie | 1935-04-19 | A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire…. |
| Million Dollar Baby | Cornelia Wheelwright | 1941-05-31 | A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression…. |
| Nurse Edith Cavell | Mme. Rappard | 1939-08-31 | British nurse Edith Cavell (Anna Neagle) is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a Ge… |
| The Solitaire Man | Mrs. Vail | 1933-09-22 | An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered when Bascom, a gang member, arrives with a stolen … |
| Men Must Fight | Maman Seward | 1933-02-17 | Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war…. |
| Age of Indiscretion | Emma Shaw | 1935-05-10 | A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert him for a society millionaire, leaving him with t… |
| The Texas Rangers Ride Again | Cecilia Dangerfield | 1940-12-13 | With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930’s Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the g… |
| Rubber Tires | Mrs. Stack | 1927-02-07 | When the Stack family suffers some financial setbacks, daughter Mary Ellen suggests they buy a car and relocate to California. Unbeknownst to them, th… |
| Movies on Sundays | Herself (uncredited) | 1935-01-01 | A short, introduced in Pennsylvania when the state had laws disallowing the screening of films on Sunday, to sway voters on a referendum to allow such… |
| The Kid from Kokomo | Margaret ‘Maggie’ / ‘Ma’ Manell | 1939-05-23 | Gruff boxing manager “Square Shooting Murph” Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston.Homer is willing to give up his boxing career sea… |
| Pals in Paradise | Esther Lezinsky | 1926-11-22 | Bill Harvey discovers a lost mine, rich with gold. Geraldine “Jerry” Howard has the claim to it left her by her father. Bill tells her that the death … |
| When Knights Were Bold | 1908-05-20 | Two noblemen fight over a lady…. | |
| Joan of Paris | Mlle. Rosay | 1942-01-20 | An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers get to Paris in spite of the fact that the youngest, Baby, is injured. He must be hid… |
| Wife vs. Secretary | Mimi Stanhope | 1936-02-28 | Magazine publisher Van Stanhope is a hard-working, dynamic executive very happily married to his beautiful wife Linda. Although their relationship is … |
| Four Daughters | Aunt Etta | 1938-08-09 | Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man … |
| Anna Karenina | Countess Vronsky | 1935-08-30 | In 19th century Russia a woman in a respectable marriage to a senior statesman must grapple with her love for a dashing soldier…. |
| Irene | Granny O’Dare | 1940-04-23 | Upholsterer’s assistant Irene O’Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate. Charm… |
| Letty Lynton | Mrs. Lynton, Letty’s Mothers | 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… |
| The White Sister | Mother Superior | 1933-03-17 | An Italian aristocrat enters a nunnery, thinking her pilot lover has been killed in the war…. |
| Beauty for Sale | Mrs. Merrick | 1933-09-01 | A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of … |
| Reunion in Vienna | Frau Lucher | 1933-06-16 | An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now wed to a psychiatrist (Frank Morgan)…. |
| Yes, My Darling Daughter | ‘Granny’ Whitman | 1939-02-25 | Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year job in Belgium. Ellen and Doug decide to spend thei… |
| Bringing Up Baby | Elizabeth Random | 1938-02-18 | David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo… |
| Strange Interlude | Mrs. Evans | 1932-12-30 | After Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband’s family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the c… |
| Daughters Courageous | Penny, the Housekeeper | 1939-06-23 | Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her 1st husband Jim … |
| Playmates | Grandma Kyser | 1941-12-26 | Lulu Monahan, the press agent for John Barrymore, is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. To that end, she and the agent for bandleader Ka… |
| Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 1 | Herself | 1941-10-02 | Hedda Hopper guides us through some of Hollywood’s sights; the home of William S. Hart and a Kay Kyser recording-session being among them…. |
| Red-Headed Woman | Aunt Jane | 1932-06-25 | Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force so… |
| The Perfect Specimen | Mrs. Leona Wicks | 1937-10-23 | Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wicks is resigned to following his grandmother’s wish… |
| Four Wives | Aunt Etta | 1939-12-22 | In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her enga… |
| Four Mothers | Aunt Etta | 1941-01-04 | Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together…. |
| Broadway to Hollywood | Veteran Actress | 1933-09-15 | In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son…. |
| Chicago | Mrs. Morton – Matron | 1927-12-23 | Based on a true story, two-timing boozing wife Roxie Hart kills her lover in cold blood after he leaves her, and finagles her way out being indicted. … |
| If I Had a Million | Mrs. Mary Walker | 1932-12-02 | An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory…. |
| How Molly Malone Made Good | Herself | 1915-10-25 | Molly, an Irish girl just hired by a New York newspaper, is assigned as a test a chain interview of celebrities that must be accomplished within a set… |
| Breakdowns of 1939 | Herself | 1940-01-02 | Flubs and bloopers that occurred ont the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939…. |
| Dinner at Eight | Mrs. Wendel | 1933-12-22 | An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of t… |
| Breakdowns of 1940 | Herself | 1940-01-01 | Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1940…. |
| The King of Kings | Mother of Gestas | 1927-04-19 | The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywoo… |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Prostitute at Clinic (uncredited) | 1920-03-18 | A doctor’s research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend…. |
| The Hollywood Gad-About | Herself (uncredited) | 1934-10-04 | A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild’s Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies…. |
| Alice in Wonderland | Queen Of Hearts | 1933-12-18 | In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland populated by even more fantastic characters…. |
| Cavalcade of the Academy Awards | Herself | 1940-07-31 | This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeche… |
| Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage | Herself (archive footage) | 1983-02-25 | Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival fo… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| A Night Out | Theatre Play | 1916-01-31 | A grandmother has an adventure for the first time in her life when she decides to have a night out…. |
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