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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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- wc Gender: Female
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1874-02-24
- event Death Date 1966-12-14
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 2.5
- info Birth Place Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
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8.4
The Great Dictator
1940-10-15
6.7
Son of Frankenstein
1939-01-13
0
The Postman Didn't Ring
1942-07-03
7.3
The Talk of the Town
1942-08-20
6.2
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1941-01-31
6.5
Life with Father
1947-09-13
6.4
Ladies in Retirement
1941-09-09
6.3
The Glass Key
1935-06-15
0
Second Wife
1936-08-21
5.5
The Woman in White
1948-05-07
6.5
Blessed Event
1932-09-10
6.2
Madame X
1937-10-01
4.3
Elmer, the Great
1933-04-29
6.7
When You're in Love
1937-02-12
6.5
Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
1941-08-22
5
Minesweeper
1943-11-10
6.8
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
1940-09-06
6.7
Under Eighteen
1932-01-02
6
Little Big Shot
1935-09-07
4.8
Dr. Monica
1934-06-23
6
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1944-02-11
5.4
The Bad Sister
1931-03-29
5.8
The Wet Parade
1932-03-26
6.6
Hard to Handle
1933-01-28
5.7
Varsity Show
1937-09-04
5.3
Hell's House
1932-01-30
3.8
The Duke of West Point
1938-12-29
6
The Keeper of the Bees
1935-07-14
4.5
Ladies Crave Excitement
1935-06-21
4
George White's 1935 Scandals
1935-03-29
6.7
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1935-12-13
5.7
It's Tough to Be Famous
1932-04-02
6
This Modern Age
1931-08-29
5.7
Thanks for the Memory
1938-11-11
3.3
Morals for Women
1931-10-24
4
Circus Girl
1937-03-01
0
The Llano Kid
1939-12-08
4.4
Flirtation
1934-11-09
0
The Harvester
1936-04-18
4.5
You Can't Fool Your Wife
1940-05-21
5.5
High School
1940-01-26
5.4
Dark Hazard
1934-01-31
5.5
Manslaughter
1930-07-22
6.1
The Cowboy and the Lady
1938-11-17
4.2
Three Loves Has Nancy
1938-09-02
6
The Guilty Generation
1931-11-19
0
A Man of Sentiment
1933-09-15
4
Cowboy from Brooklyn
1938-07-09
4
Hideaway
1937-08-13
6.8
Letty Lynton
1932-04-30
0
Hoosier Holiday
1943-09-13
5.7
Side Street
1929-09-14
5
Half a Sinner
1940-04-05
6.5
Young Dr. Kildare
1938-10-14
5.3
Waikiki Wedding
1937-03-23
6
The Penalty
1941-03-13
6.1
Calling Dr. Kildare
1939-04-28
6.7
Each Dawn I Die
1939-08-19
6
This Is the Life
1935-10-07
3
The Prodigal
1931-02-21
5.6
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1939-11-24
0
The Son of Frankenstein
1965-01-01
1
Compromised
1931-11-19
7.5
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936-04-09
0
The Quitter
1934-02-05
7.5
Broken Lullaby
1932-01-19
5.8
The Texan
1930-05-10
6.8
It Happened Tomorrow
1944-03-31
7
Little Orvie
1940-03-11
6.3
Mourning Becomes Electra
1947-11-19
0
My Buddy
1944-10-12
0
Scattergood Meets Broadway
1941-08-22
5.2
The Hoodlum Saint
1946-04-04
6.4
Dance, Girl, Dance
1940-08-30
4.8
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
1940-04-12
0
Too Young to Marry
1931-05-03
0
Are These Our Parents?
1944-06-27
6.9
I Married a Witch
1942-10-30
5
It's Great to Be Alive
1933-07-08
4
One Crowded Night
1940-08-09
5
Pied Piper Malone
1924-02-04
5
The Mad Martindales
1942-05-15
0
Private Jones
1933-03-25
6
Rise and Shine
1941-11-21
5.8
The Monster and the Girl
1941-02-28
3.7
Grand Slam
1933-02-22
7.1
Lord Jeff
1938-06-17
4.6
Bad Company
1931-10-16
6
Scattergood Baines
1941-02-21
0
Scattergood Pulls the Strings
1941-05-23
4.2
Another Face
1935-12-20
6.4
Babes on Broadway
1941-12-31
0
Hero for a Day
1939-10-06
0
The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood
1932-03-27
5.2
The Emperor's Candlesticks
1937-07-02