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.

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El Gran Dictador 1940Película como Mrs. Jaeckel

Remordimiento 1932Película como Frau Miller

El secreto de vivir 1936Película como Mrs. Meredith (uncredited)

El hijo de Frankenstein 1939Película como Amelia

La vida con papá 1947Película +2 como Margaret

Baila, muchacha, baila 1940Película como Mrs. Simpson

El asunto del día 1942Película como Mrs. Shelley

El vaquero y la dama 1938Película como Ma Hawkins

Su amado enemigo 1941Película como Martha

Sucedió mañana 1944Película como Mrs. Keaver (uncredited)

Muero cada amanecer 1939Película como Mrs. Ross

Three Loves Has Nancy 1938Película como Mrs. Briggs

El extraño caso del Dr. Kildare 1940Película como Martha Kildare

Preludio de amor 1937Película como Mrs. Hamilton

Calling Dr. Kildare 1939Película como Mrs. Martha Kildare

The Keeper of the Bees 1935Película como Margaret Campbell

Varsity Show 1937Película como Mrs. Smith

Chicos de Broadway 1941Película como Mrs. Williams

El secreto del Dr. Kildare 1939Película como Martha Kildare

Más allá del amor 1941Película como Mrs. Martha Kildare

Ladies Crave Excitement 1935Película como Mrs. Phelan

You Can't Fool Your Wife 1940Película como Mother Fields

Madame X 1937Película como Rose, Fleuriot's Houskeeper

El regreso del Dr. Kildear 1940Película como Mrs. Martha Kildare

Goldfish Bowl 1932Película como 'Moms' McClenahan

Manslaughter 1930Película como Miss Bennett

Todo un hombre 1930Película como Señora Doña Marguerita Granadas-Ibarra

El joven Dr. Kildare 1938Película como Mrs. Martha Kildare

Duro de pelar 1933Película como Mrs. Hawks (uncredited)