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Dame Mary Louise Webster, DBE (19 June 1865 – 29 May 1948), known professionally as May Whitty and later, for her charity work, Dame May Whitty, was an English stage and film actress. She was one of the first two women entertainers to become a Dame. The British actors union Equity was established in her home. After a successful career she moved over to Hollywood films at the age of 72. She went to live in America, where she won awards for her film roles.
May Whitty Biography / Wiki
| Name | May Whitty |
| Also Know | Mary Louise Whitty, Mary Louisa Whitty, Mary Louise Webster, Dame Mary Louise Webster, Dame Mary Louise Webster, DBE, May Whitty, Miss May Whitty, Dame May Whitty |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | 1865-06-19 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 82 |
| Deathday | 1948-05-29 |
May Whitty Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Thirteenth Chair | Mme. Rosalie La Grange | 1937-05-07 | A phony psychic tries to solve a murder that took place during her seance…. |
| My Name Is Julia Ross | Mrs. Hughes | 1945-11-08 | A woman finds herself entrenched in a murder cover-up when she goes to work for a wealthy widow…. |
| The Lady Vanishes | Miss Froy | 1938-10-07 | On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befrien… |
| Lassie Come Home | Dally | 1943-12-01 | Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling t… |
| Night Must Fall | Mrs. Bramson | 1937-04-30 | Wealthy widow Mrs. Bramson notices that her maid is distracted, and when she learns the girl’s fiancé, Danny, is the reason, she summons him in. Mrs…. |
| Raffles | Lady Melrose | 1939-11-11 | Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. Meeting Gwen from his schooldays and falling in lov… |
| Return to Yesterday | Mrs Emily Truscott | 1940-03-09 | Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England…. |
| Mrs. Miniver | Lady Beldon | 1942-07-03 | English middle-class family, The Minivers, experience life in the first months of World War II…. |
| Gaslight | Bessie Thwaites | 1944-05-04 | A newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion…. |
| Slightly Dangerous | Baba | 1943-04-01 | Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity…. |
| Keep Your Seats, Please | Aunt Georgina Withers | 1936-08-01 | Despite being on his uppers, George is still prepared to pawn his beloved banjo in order to help his girlfriend save her niece from the orphanage. Hel… |
| Suspicion | Mrs. McLaidlaw | 1941-11-14 | Wealthy, sheltered Lina McLaidlaw is swept off her feet by charming ne’er-do-well Johnnie Aysgarth. Though warned that Johnnie is little more than a f… |
| This Time for Keeps | Grandmother Cambaretti | 1947-10-17 | An ex-GI falls for a bathing beauty…. |
| Crash Dive | Grandmother | 1943-04-22 | A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new… |
| Thunder Birds | Lady Jane Stackhouse | 1942-10-28 | On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in World War II. One of his trainees, Englishman Peter Sta… |
| A Bill of Divorcement | Aunt Hester Fairfield | 1940-05-31 | Father’s return from the insane asylum spells calamity for the Fairfield family…. |
| The Return of October | Aunt Martha Grant | 1948-10-26 | A wholesome girl believes her new racehorse, October, is the reincarnation of her favorite uncle, Willie…. |
| I Met My Love Again | Aunt William | 1938-01-14 | In Vermont, college student Ives Towner refuses to marry his longtime girlfriend, Julie Weir, until he has a career. Soon after, Julie meets and grows… |
| The Little Minister | Nanny Webster | 1915-02-01 | A Lord’s fiancée poses as a gypsy and falls in love with the new minister…. |
| The Sign of the Ram | Clara Brastock | 1948-03-03 | A wheelchair-bound woman manipulates her family to a point where they suspect she may be unhinged…. |
| The Constant Nymph | Lady Constance Longborough | 1943-06-23 | The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the adolescent. When her father dies, an uncle arrives with his own… |
| If Winter Comes | Mrs. Perch | 1947-12-31 | It’s 1939 in the small English town of Penny Green and events in Poland are about to change lives. Mark Sabre, a writer of school textbooks, has marri… |
| One Night In Lisbon | Florence | 1941-06-13 | Saucy screwball comedy wherein lovely Madeleine falls in love with flier Fred despite interference from her fiancee and his ex…. |
| Conquest | Laetitia Bonaparte | 1937-10-22 | A polish countess dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte’s mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him … |
| Madame Curie | Madame Eugene Curie | 1943-12-16 | Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concern… |
| The White Cliffs of Dover | Nanny | 1944-05-11 | Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind rom… |
| Devotion | Lady Thornton | 1946-04-05 | In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Reverend Arthur Nichols. Along with their sister Anne… |
| Green Dolphin Street | Mother Superior | 1947-01-15 | Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William. Sophie… |
| Flesh and Fantasy | Pamela Hardwick (segment 2) | 1943-10-29 | Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The second involves a psychic who predicts… |
| Forever and a Day | Lucy Trimble | 1943-01-21 | In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, … |
| Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 | 1942-10-05 | Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, “The White House of Hollywood.”… | |
| Stage Door Canteen | Dame May Whitty | 1943-06-24 | A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreati… |
Credit: TMDB
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