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Gender: Female

Place of birth: Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK

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Movie Involvements: 47

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Most Famous Work

Biography

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.

Most Famous Work

Son of Frankenstein
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7

Son of Frankenstein

(1939) Amelia
The Bad Sister
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5

The Bad Sister

(1931) Mrs. Madison
Hell's House
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5

Hell's House

(1932) Emma Clark
Each Dawn I Die
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7

Each Dawn I Die

(1939) Mrs. Ross
The Monster and the Girl
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6

The Monster and the Girl

(1941) Aunt Della (uncredited)
The Woman in White
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6

The Woman in White

(1948) Mrs. Vesey
Madame X
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6

Madame X

(1937) Rose, Fleuriot's Houskeeper
Ladies in Retirement
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6

Ladies in Retirement

(1941) Sister Theresa

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1948 Mrs. Vesey
1947 Margaret
1946 Maggie
1944 Mary Ballinger
Ma Henderson
Mrs. Keaver (uncredited)
Doña Mercedes
1943 Mom Smith
Molly Baker
1942 Wife of Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
Mrs. Shelley
Martha Carter
Agnes
1941 Mrs. Williams
Mrs. Murray
Sister Theresa
Mirandy Baines
Mrs. Martha Kildare
Mirandy Baines
'Ma' McCormick
Aunt Della (uncredited)
Mirandy Baines
Martha
1940 Mrs. Jaeckel
Mrs. Martha Kildare
Mrs. Simpson
Ma Matthews
Mother Fields
Mrs. Martha Kildare
Granny Gladden
Mrs. Welty
Mrs. O'Neill
1939 Doña Teresa
Mrs. Martha Kildare
Emmy "Moms" Higgins
Mrs. Ross
Mrs. Martha Kildare
Amelia
1938 Jack's Mother
Ma Hawkins
Mrs. Platt
Mrs. Martha Kildare
Mrs. Briggs
Ma Hardy
Mrs. Briggs
1937 Rose, Fleuriot's Houskeeper
Mrs. Smith
Emma Peterson
Anna - Olga's Housekeeper
Mother
Molly
Mrs. Hamilton
1936 Mrs. Brown
Granny Moreland
Mrs. Meredith (uncredited)
1935 Sheila's Mother (uncredited)
Mrs. Quimby
Mrs. Davis
Orphanage Matron
Margaret Campbell
Mrs. Phelan
'Mom' Madvig
Aunt Jane
1934 Mrs. Poole
Mrs. Monahan
Cordelia Tilford
Mrs. Mayhew
1933 Mrs. John Russell Sr.
Mrs. Wilton
Mrs. Kane
Mrs. Jones
Reporter
Mrs. Hawks (uncredited)
1932 Mrs. Roberts
Mrs. Darrow
'Moms' McClenahan
Mrs. Sarah Cohen
Mrs. Chilcote
Emma Clark
Frau Miller
1931 Mrs. Evans (uncredited)
Nina Palmero
Mrs. Hutson
Emma
Margaret Blake
Mrs. Bumpstead
Mrs. Madison
Mrs. Farraday
1930 Miss Bennett
Señora Doña Marguerita Ibarra
1929 Nora O'Farrell
1924 Mother Malone
Year Character Movie/Tv

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