Ann Shoemaker was an American character actress whose prolific career spanned over five decades across theater, radio, film and television. She appeared in roughly 70 films and TV movies between 1928 and 1976, frequently portraying refined, commanding or maternal figures, most famously playing Sara Delano Roosevelt (the mother of FDR) on both Broadway and in the acclaimed 1960 film adaptation of Sunrise at Campobello.
The Fortune Cookie
(Sister Veronica)
House by the River
(Mrs. Ambrose - Stephen's houseeper)
Scattergood Pulls the Strings
(Mrs. Downs)
Above Suspicion
(Aunt Ellen)
The Return of the Whistler
(Mrs. Barkley)
Conflict
(Nora Grant)
Stella Dallas
(Miss Margaret Phillibrown)
Alice Adams
(Mrs. Adams)
They Won't Forget
(Mrs. Mountford)
Ellery Queen, Master Detective
(Lydia Braun)
Sunrise at Campobello
(Sara Delano Roosevelt)
A Woman's Secret
(Mrs. Matthews, Brook's Mother)
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
(Mrs. Parker)
Dr. Monica
(Mrs. Hazlitt)
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
(Mrs. Wallace)
Roberta
(Aunt Minnie)
Middle of the Night
(Millie)
Stranded
(Mrs. Tuthill)
Wallflower
(Mrs. James)
Seventeen
(Mary Baxter)
They All Come Out
(Dr. Ellen Hollis)
Magic Town
(Ma Peterman)
What a Blonde
(Mrs. DaFoe)
The Marines Fly High
(Mrs. Hill)
The Life of the Party
(Countess Martos)
Strike Up the Band
(Mrs. Connors)
A Dog of Flanders
(Ilse Cogez)
Shall We Dance
(Matron)
Almost a Gentleman
(Mrs. Thompson)
Sitting Pretty
(Mrs. Ashcroft (uncredited))
Babes in Arms
(Mrs. Barton)
The Farmer's Daughter
(Mrs. Bingham)
Sins of Man
(Anna Engel)
Romance of the Redwoods
(Mother Manning)
An Angel from Texas
(Addie Lou Coleman)
Boogie Woogie
(Mrs. Stumplefinger)
Man from Frisco
(Martha Kennedy)
My Favorite Wife
(Ma)
What a Woman
(Senator's Wife (uncredited))
The Reckless Moment
(Mrs. Catherine Feller (uncredited))
Chance at Heaven
(Mrs. Harris)
Phantoms, Inc.
(Mrs. Martha Kenneson)
Curtain Call
(Mrs. Middleton)
Cheating Cheaters
(Mrs. Grace Palmer)
Shockproof
(Dr. Daniels (Uncredited))
You'll Never Get Rich
(Mrs. Barton)
Cross Country Cruise
(Mrs. O'Shaughnessy (Uncredited))
The Girl from Avenue A
(Mrs. Maddox)
It's Murder
(Mrs Nelson)
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
Mission: Impossible
(Madame Prokov)
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