Emma Dunn

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.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1874-02-24
Place of Birth: Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
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Movies List of Emma Dunn

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The Great Dictator

1940 Movie
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Son of Frankenstein

1939 Movie
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The Talk of the Town

1942 Movie
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith

1941 Movie
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Life with Father

1947 Movie
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Ladies in Retirement

1941 Movie
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The Glass Key

1935 Movie
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Second Wife

1936 Movie
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The Woman in White

1948 Movie
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Blessed Event

1932 Movie
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Madame X

1937 Movie
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Elmer, the Great

1933 Movie
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When You're in Love

1937 Movie
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Minesweeper

1943 Movie
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home

1940 Movie
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Under Eighteen

1932 Movie
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Little Big Shot

1935 Movie
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Dr. Monica

1934 Movie
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The Bad Sister

1931 Movie
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The Wet Parade

1932 Movie
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Hard to Handle

1933 Movie
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Varsity Show

1937 Movie
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Hell's House

1932 Movie
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This Modern Age

1931 Movie
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Thanks for the Memory

1938 Movie
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Morals for Women

1931 Movie
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Circus Girl

1937 Movie
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The Llano Kid

1939 Movie
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Flirtation

1934 Movie
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The Harvester

1936 Movie
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High School

1940 Movie
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Dark Hazard

1934 Movie
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Manslaughter

1930 Movie
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Three Loves Has Nancy

1938 Movie
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The Guilty Generation

1931 Movie
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A Man of Sentiment

1933 Movie
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Cowboy from Brooklyn

1938 Movie
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Hideaway

1937 Movie
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Letty Lynton

1932 Movie
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Hoosier Holiday

1943 Movie
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Side Street

1929 Movie
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Half a Sinner

1940 Movie
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Young Dr. Kildare

1938 Movie
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Waikiki Wedding

1937 Movie
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The Penalty

1941 Movie
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Calling Dr. Kildare

1939 Movie
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Each Dawn I Die

1939 Movie
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This Is the Life

1935 Movie
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The Prodigal

1931 Movie
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Compromised

1931 Movie
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The Quitter

1934 Movie
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Broken Lullaby

1932 Movie
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The Texan

1930 Movie
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It Happened Tomorrow

1944 Movie
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Little Orvie

1940 Movie
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My Buddy

1944 Movie
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The Hoodlum Saint

1946 Movie
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Dance, Girl, Dance

1940 Movie
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Too Young to Marry

1931 Movie
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I Married a Witch

1942 Movie
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One Crowded Night

1940 Movie
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Pied Piper Malone

1924 Movie
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The Mad Martindales

1942 Movie
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Private Jones

1933 Movie
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Rise and Shine

1941 Movie
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Grand Slam

1933 Movie
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Lord Jeff

1938 Movie
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Bad Company

1931 Movie
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Scattergood Baines

1941 Movie
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Another Face

1935 Movie
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Babes on Broadway

1941 Movie
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Hero for a Day

1939 Movie