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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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The Son of Frankenstein (1965)
The Woman in White (1948)
Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
Life with Father (1947)
My Buddy (1944)
Are These Our Parents? (1944)
It Happened Tomorrow (1944)
Prices Unlimited (1944)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944)
Minesweeper (1943)
Hoosier Holiday (1943)
When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1942)
I Married a Witch (1942)
The Talk of the Town (1942)
The Postman Didn't Ring (1942)
Babes on Broadway (1941)
Rise and Shine (1941)
Ladies in Retirement (1941)
Scattergood Meets Broadway (1941)
Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day (1941)
Scattergood Pulls the Strings (1941)
The Penalty (1941)
The Monster and the Girl (1941)
Scattergood Baines (1941)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Yesterday's Heroes (1940)
Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940)
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
You Can't Fool Your Wife (1940)
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940)
Half a Sinner (1940)
Little Orvie (1940)
High School (1940)
The Llano Kid (1939)
The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939)
Hero for a Day (1939)
Each Dawn I Die (1939)
Calling Dr. Kildare (1939)
The Duke of West Point (1938)
The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
Thanks for the Memory (1938)
Young Dr. Kildare (1938)
Three Loves Has Nancy (1938)
Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938)
Lord Jeff (1938)
Varsity Show (1937)
Hideaway (1937)
The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937)
When You're in Love (1937)
Second Wife (1936)
The Harvester (1936)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Another Face (1935)
Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935)
This Is the Life (1935)
Little Big Shot (1935)
The Keeper of the Bees (1935)
Ladies Crave Excitement (1935)
The Glass Key (1935)
Flirtation (1934)
Dr. Monica (1934)
The Quitter (1934)
Dark Hazard (1934)
Walls of Gold (1933)
A Man of Sentiment (1933)
It's Great to Be Alive (1933)
Elmer, the Great (1933)
Private Jones (1933)
Grand Slam (1933)
Hard to Handle (1933)
Blessed Event (1932)
Letty Lynton (1932)
It's Tough to Be Famous (1932)
The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood (1932)
The Wet Parade (1932)
Hell's House (1932)
Broken Lullaby (1932)
Under Eighteen (1932)
Compromised (1931)
The Guilty Generation (1931)
Morals for Women (1931)
This Modern Age (1931)
Too Young to Marry (1931)
The Bad Sister (1931)
The Prodigal (1931)
Manslaughter (1930)
The Texan (1930)
Side Street (1929)
Pied Piper Malone (1924)
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GenderFemale
Birthday1875-02-26
Deathday1966-12-14 (91 years old)
Birth PlaceBirkenhead, United Kingdom
RelationshipsHarry Beresford (1897 - 1909)
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom
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