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