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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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15 September 1933
A man and woman fall in love at first sight, but everyone in their universe tries to keep them apart except one old fool with a sentimental heart.
15 October 1940
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
13 December 1935
A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn.
10 November 1943
A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins.
01 October 1937
An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
10 September 1932
A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.
20 December 1935
The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his new face.
28 April 1939
Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson.
02 January 1932
Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take.
21 November 1941
The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football e
31 January 1934
Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems.
11 February 1944
A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths.
15 June 1935
When Paul Madvig, a successful politician who fights his rivals to seize the city, becomes implicated in a murder, Ed Beaumont, his friend and right-hand man, must decide which side he is on.
09 July 1938
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
19 November 1931
The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety.
22 August 1941
Scattergood finds out that his neighbor, Elly Drew, is going to sell her home to support her son David, an aspiring playwright, who is in New York City trying to get his play produced.
27 March 1932
The Cohens and the Kellys invade a Hollywood studio after Kitty becomes the darling of the studio.
29 March 1935
A Broadway producer discovers new talent in a small Georgia town and brings them to New York for his new show.
13 August 1937
A poor family receives unwanted houseguests when they're visited by gangsters looking for a place to hide out.
21 June 1935
Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures.
15 May 1942
A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.
25 March 1933
After America enters World War I, young William "Bill" Jones tries to avoid military service by telling the draft board that he is the sole supporter of his family and is employed by businessman Roger Winthrop, his sister Helen's boss.
04 April 1946
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected.
13 September 1943
During World War II three brothers go to enlist in the Air Force, but since they're farmers they're told they're needed at home more than in the service.
09 November 1934
A naive farmer encounters a beautiful burlesque dancer on the streets of New York and agrees to pose as her husband during her mother's visit.
02 July 1937
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
05 February 1934
When her husband, who founded the town's crusading local newspaper, doesn't come back from the French battlefields of World War I, a woman struggles to raise her two sons and keep the newspaper going.
30 January 1932
A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss.
14 July 1935
A severely traumatized World War I veteran, believing that he's living on borrowed time, comes upon a peaceful little village and meets an old man called Bee Master and his protégé, Little Scout, who try to convince him that he has more to live for than he thinks he does.
02 September 1938
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
08 December 1939
Lora Travers is the only person who can identify hold-up artist The Llano Kid and she persuades him to come in on a scheme with her and her husband.
06 October 1939
When a night watchman is mistaken for a wealthy college alumnus, his family and friends help him go along with the pretense.
31 January 1941
Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her? To her shock, he answers, "No".
14 October 1938
A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his knowledge by the hospital's top dog, Dr.
06 September 1940
A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.
26 January 1940
A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled on her father's Texan ranch must adjust to her new surroundings with other students when she's sent to a San Antonio high school.
02 April 1932
Scotty, an unwilling Navy war hero is cast into the limelight. He wants to get married and be an engineer, but is forced to fulfil the expectations of the public, his employer and his PR agent, which he hates.
10 May 1930
Outlaw Llano Kid poses as a rich Mexican widow's son and falls in love with a cousin.
17 November 1938
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby.
04 September 1937
Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show.
30 August 1940
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque.
21 February 1941
Young Scattergood Baines arrives in the small New England town of Coldriver. Through some shrewd business maneuvering, he manages to open up a hardware store.
13 January 1939
One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is controlled by Ygor who is bent on revenge.
19 November 1931
Poor working-class girl Stella marries wealthy Sidney Brock, recently jilted by his fiancée and social equal Connie.
05 April 1940
Although young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to take a walk on the wild side, splurging on some fashionable new clothes and setting off to find adventure.
30 October 1942
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her, but runs afoul of her father when she discovers that her mischief might have found her true love.
28 February 1941
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
19 August 1939
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
29 April 1933
Baseball star Elmer Kane leaves the little town of Gentryville, Indiana, to join the Chicago Cubs, where his naivete and arrogance soon put his relationship and career into jeopardy.
17 June 1938
Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and steal jewelry from exclusive shops.
09 September 1941
Ellen Creed is a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English countryside.
23 March 1937
Tony Marvin is a laid back but incredibly successful promoter and fair-haired boy for J. P. Todhunter's pineapple company located in beautiful Hawaii.
19 November 1947
Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin.
21 February 1931
An aspiring singer, who has fallen on hard times and is now living as a hobo, returns to his wealthy southern family.
16 October 1931
A psychotic and sadistic mob boss is infatuated with the young wife of his newlywed attorney, and he plots to get him out of the way so he can have her to himself.
01 March 1937
A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival.
03 July 1942
Stolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The letters are finally delivered, profoundly affecting the lives of the recipients.
27 June 1944
A mother's preference for partying, boozing and running around with an assortment of sleazy characters results in her neglecting her nubile teenage daughter, who subsequently finds herself mixed up with horny teenage boys, scuzzy nightclub owners and murder.
22 August 1941
A variety of predicaments arise to distract Dr. Kildare from his wedding to Nurse Mary Lamont.
20 August 1942
Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood friend, which she has recently rented to a high-principled law teacher.
