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Emma Dunn (26 February 1875 – 14 December 1966) was an English actress. After starting her acting career on stage in London, she became known for her works in numerous films and Broadway productions.

Emma Dunn
Dunn in 1911
Born	(1875-02-26)26 February 1875 Birkenhead, Cheshire, England
Died	14 December 1966(1966-12-14) (aged 91) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1902–1948
Spouse(s)	Harry Beresford ​ ​ (m. 1897; div. 1909)​ John W. Stokes ​ ​ (m. 1909; died 1931)​
Children	2

Career

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.[1]

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, and then she made her sound 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)[2] and You Can Do It (1947).[3]

Personal life

Emma Dunn was born 26 February 1875,[4] in Birkenhead, England, although she sometimes gave her year of birth as 1883.[5][6]

Dunn married Harry Beresford,[7][8] an actor who was then known professionally as Harry J. Morgan, in Chicago on 4 October 1897.[9] 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[5] (John W. S. Sullivan[10]), an actor, playwright[6] and theatrical manager.[11] They subsequently adopted a second daughter, Helen.[12] The couple divorced sometime between 1923[5] and Stokes' death in 1931.[13]

After suffering a heart attack some months before, Dunn died 14 December 1966 in Los Angeles, California, aged 91.[14][15]

Theatre credits

Date	Title	Role	Notes
30 November – 6 December 1902	The Wrong Mr. Wright	Tillie Bird	National tour beginning at Morosco's Burbank Theatre, Los Angeles[16][17]
8 January – January 1906	The Redemption of David Corson		Majestic Theatre, New York City[18]
28 October 1906 – January 1907	Peer Gynt	Ase	Grand Opera House, Chicago[19][20]
25 February – 23 March 1907	Peer Gynt	Ase	New Amsterdam Theatre, New York City[21][22]
3 December 1907 – October 1908	The Warrens of Virginia	Mrs. Warren	Belasco Theatre, Stuyvesant Theatre, New York City[23]
19 January – June 1909	The Easiest Way	Annie	Stuyvesant Theatre, New York City[24]
7 September – 31 December 1910	Mother	Mrs. Katherine Wetherill	Hackett Theatre, Criterion Theatre, New York City[25][26]
10 September 1912 – January 1913	The Governor's Lady	Mary Slade	Theatre Republic, New York City[27]
7 January – July 1915	Sinners	Mrs. Horton	Playhouse Theatre, New York City[28][29]
30 October 1916 – March 1917	Old Lady 31	Angie	38th Street Theatre, New York City[30][31]
16 August – 10 September 1921	Sonny	Mrs. Crosby	Cort Theatre, New York City[32]
24 November 1924 – January 1925	Dawn	Mary Slayton	Sam H. Harris Theatre, New York City[33]
24 November 1925 – 19??	Rip Van Winkle	Gretchen	Boston Repertory Theatre, Boston[34]
January 1927	Junk	Old Sal	Garrick Theatre, New York City[35]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1914	Mother	Mrs. Wetherell	[36]
1920	Old Lady 31	Angie Rose	[36]
1924	Pied Piper Malone	Mother Malone	[36]
1929	Side Street	Mrs. O'Farrell	[36]
1930	Manslaughter	Miss Bennett	[36]
1931	Bad Sister	Mrs. Madison	[36]
1931	Compromised	Mrs. Squires	[36]
1931	The Guilty Generation	Nina	[36]
1931	Morals for Women	Mrs. Hutson	[36]
1931	The Prodigal	Mrs. Cynthia Farraday	[36]
1931	The Texan	Señora Ibarra	[36]
1931	This Modern Age	Mrs. Blake	[36]
1931	Too Young to Marry	Jennie Bumpsted	[36]
1931	Under Eighteen	Mrs. Evans	[36]
1932	Blessed Event	Mrs. Roberts	[36]
1932	Broken Lullaby	Mrs. Miller	[36]
1932	The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood	Mrs. Sarah Cohen	[36]
1932	Hell's House	Emma Clark	[36]
1932	It's Tough to Be Famous	"Moms" McClenahan	[36]
1932	Letty Lynton	Mrs. Darrow	[36]
1932	The Wet Parade	Mrs. Sally Chilcote	[36]
1932	When a Feller Needs a Friend	Kind lady	[36]
1933	Elmer, the Great	Mrs. Kane	[36]
1933	Grand Slam	Sob sister	[36]
1933	Hard to Handle	Mrs. Hawks	[36]
1933	It's Great to Be Alive	Mrs. Wilton	[36]
1933	A Man of Sentiment	Mrs. Russell	[36]
1933	Private Jones	Mrs. Jones	[36]
1934	Dark Hazard	Mrs. Mayhew	[36]
1934	Dr. Monica	Mrs. Monahan	[36]
1934	Flirtation	Mrs. Poole	[36]
1934	The Quitter	Cordelia Tilford	[36]
1935	Another Face	Sheila's mother	[36]
1935	The Crusades	Mother of Alan	[36]
1935	George White's 1935 Scandals	Aunt Jane	[36]
1935	The Glass Key	"Mom"	[36]
1935	The Keeper of the Bees	Margaret Campbell	[36]
1935	Ladies Crave Excitement	Mary Phelan	[36]
1935	Little Big Shot	Matron	[36]
1935	Seven Keys to Baldpate	Mrs. Quimby	[36]
1935	This Is the Life	Mrs. Davis	[36]
1936	The Harvester	Granny Moreland	[36]
1936	Mr. Deeds Goes to Town	Mrs. Meredith, Deed's housekeeper	Uncredited[36]
1936	Second Wife	Mrs. Brown	[36]
1937	Circus Girl	Molly	[36]
1937	The Emperor's Candlesticks	Housekeeper	[36]
1937	Madame X	Rose	[36]
1937	Varsity Show	Mrs. Smith	[36]
1937	Waikiki Wedding	Old woman	[36]
1937	When You're in Love	Mrs. Hamilton	[36]
1938	The Cowboy and the Lady	Ma Hawkins	[36]
1938	Cowboy from Brooklyn	Ma Hardy	[36]
1938	The Crowd Roars	Laura McCoy	[36]
1938	The Duke of West Point	Mrs. West	[36]
1938	Lord Jeff	Mrs. Briggs	[36]
1938	Thanks for the Memory	Mrs. Platt	[36]
1938	Three Loves Has Nancy	Mrs. Briggs	[36]
1938	Young Dr. Kildare	Martha Kildare	[36]
1939	Calling Dr. Kildare	Martha Kildare	[36]
1939	Each Dawn I Die	Mrs. Ross	[36]
1939	Hero for a Day	"Mom" Higgins	[36]
1939	The Llano Kid	Dona Teresa	[36]
1939	The Secret of Dr. Kildare	Martha Kildare	[36]
1939	Son of Frankenstein	Amelia	[36]
1940	Dance, Girl, Dance	Mrs. Simpson	[36]
1940	Dr. Kildare Goes Home	Martha Kildare	[36]
1940	Dr. Kildare's Crisis	Martha Kildare	[36]
1940	Dr. Kildare's Strange Case	Martha Kildare	[36]
1940	The Great Dictator	Mrs. Jaeckel	[36]
1940	Half a Sinner	Granny Gladden	[36]
1940	High School	Mrs. O'Neill	[36]
1940	Little Orvie	Mrs. Welty	[36]
1940	One Crowded Night	Ma	[36]
1940	Yesterday's Heroes	Aunt Winnie	[36]
1940	You Can't Fool Your Wife	Mrs. Fields	[36]
1941	Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day	Martha Kildare	[36]
1941	Ladies in Retirement	Sister Theresa	[36]
1941	Mr. & Mrs. Smith	Martha	[36]
1941	The Monster and the Girl	Aunt Della	[36]
1941	The Penalty	"Ma" McCormick	[36]
1941	Rise and Shine	Mrs. Murray	[36]
1941	Scattergood Baines	Mirandy Baines	[36]
1941	Scattergood Meets Broadway	Mirandy Baines	[36]
1941	Scattergood Pulls the Strings	Mirandy Baines	[36]
1942	Babes on Broadway	Mrs. Williams	[36]
1942	I Married a Witch	Wife of the justice of the peace	[36]
1942	The Mad Martindales	Agnes	[36]
1942	The Postman Didn't Ring	Martha Carter	[36]
1942	The Talk of the Town	Mrs. Shelley	[36]
1942	When Johnny Comes Marching Home	Nora Flanagan	[36]
1943	The Cross of Lorraine	Mme. Marchand	[36]
1943	Hoosier Holiday	Molly Baker	[36]
1943	Minesweeper	Mom	[36]
1943	The North Star	Old lady	[36]
1944	Are These Our Parents?	Ma Henderson	[36]
1944	The Bridge of San Luis Rey	Dona Mercedes	[36]
1944	Irish Eyes Are Smiling	Mother Machree	[36]
1944	It Happened Tomorrow	Mrs. Keever	[36]
1944	My Buddy	Mary Ballinger	[36]
1945	The Horn Blows at Midnight	Mrs. Smith	[36]
1945	The Hoodlum Saint	Maggie	[36]
1946	Night Train to Memphis	Mom Acuff	[36]
1947	Life with Father	Margaret, the cook	[36]
1947	Mourning Becomes Electra	Mrs. Borden	[36]
1948	The Woman in White	Mrs. Vesey	[36]

References

External links

• Emma Dunn at IMDb
• Emma Dunn at the Internet Broadway Database
• Emma Dunn (Aveleyman)

На других языках

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- [en] Emma Dunn

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[es] Emma Dunn

Emma Dunn (Chesire, Reino Unido, 26 de febrero de 1875 - Los Ángeles, 14 de diciembre de 1966) fue una actriz británica. Antes de trabajar en el cine consiguió un gran reconocimiento teatral y compartió escenario con algunas de las más grandes estrellas del teatro estadounidense de principios del siglo XX.

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[ru] Данн, Эмма

Эмма Данн (англ. Emma Dunn, 26 февраля 1875[1], Биркенхед, Великобритания — 14 декабря 1966[1], Лос-Анджелес, Калифорния) — британская актриса.

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