Acting
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.
Filmography
The Woman in White
Film · 1948
Life with Father
Film · 1947
Mourning Becomes Electra
Film · 1947
The Hoodlum Saint
Film · 1946
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Film · 1944
It Happened Tomorrow
Film · 1944
My Buddy
Film · 1944
Are These Our Parents?
Film · 1944
Minesweeper
Film · 1943
Hoosier Holiday
Film · 1943
The Postman Didn't Ring
Film · 1942
The Talk of the Town
Film · 1942
I Married a Witch
Film · 1942
The Mad Martindales
Film · 1942
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Film · 1942
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Film · 1941
Ladies in Retirement
Film · 1941
Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
Film · 1941
The Penalty
Film · 1941
Scattergood Meets Broadway
Film · 1941
Rise and Shine
Film · 1941
The Monster and the Girl
Film · 1941
Scattergood Baines
Film · 1941
Scattergood Pulls the Strings
Film · 1941
Babes on Broadway
Film · 1941
The Great Dictator
Film · 1940
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Film · 1940
You Can't Fool Your Wife
Film · 1940
High School
Film · 1940
Half a Sinner
Film · 1940
Little Orvie
Film · 1940
Dance, Girl, Dance
Film · 1940
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
Film · 1940
One Crowded Night
Film · 1940
Yesterday's Heroes
Film · 1940
Son of Frankenstein
Film · 1939
The Llano Kid
Film · 1939
Calling Dr. Kildare
Film · 1939
Each Dawn I Die
Film · 1939
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Film · 1939
Hero for a Day
Film · 1939
The Duke of West Point
Film · 1938
Thanks for the Memory
Film · 1938
The Cowboy and the Lady
Film · 1938
Three Loves Has Nancy
Film · 1938
Cowboy from Brooklyn
Film · 1938
Young Dr. Kildare
Film · 1938
Lord Jeff
Film · 1938
Madame X
Film · 1937
When You're in Love
Film · 1937
Varsity Show
Film · 1937
Circus Girl
Film · 1937
Hideaway
Film · 1937
Waikiki Wedding
Film · 1937
The Emperor's Candlesticks
Film · 1937
Second Wife
Film · 1936
The Harvester
Film · 1936
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Film · 1936
The Glass Key
Film · 1935
Little Big Shot
Film · 1935
The Keeper of the Bees
Film · 1935
Ladies Crave Excitement
Film · 1935
Seven Keys to Baldpate
Film · 1935
George White's 1935 Scandals
Film · 1935
This Is the Life
Film · 1935
Another Face
Film · 1935
Dr. Monica
Film · 1934
Flirtation
Film · 1934
Dark Hazard
Film · 1934
The Quitter
Film · 1934
Elmer, the Great
Film · 1933
Hard to Handle
Film · 1933
A Man of Sentiment
Film · 1933
It's Great to Be Alive
Film · 1933
Private Jones
Film · 1933
Grand Slam
Film · 1933
Blessed Event
Film · 1932
Under Eighteen
Film · 1932
The Wet Parade
Film · 1932
Hell's House
Film · 1932
It's Tough to Be Famous
Film · 1932
Letty Lynton
Film · 1932
Broken Lullaby
Film · 1932
The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood
Film · 1932
The Bad Sister
Film · 1931
This Modern Age
Film · 1931
Morals for Women
Film · 1931
The Guilty Generation
Film · 1931
The Prodigal
Film · 1931
Compromised
Film · 1931
Too Young to Marry
Film · 1931
Bad Company
Film · 1931
Manslaughter
Film · 1930
The Texan
Film · 1930
Side Street
Film · 1929
Pied Piper Malone
Film · 1924
Old Lady 31
Film · 1920
Mother
Film · 1914