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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...
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The Great DictatorMovie • 1940
Mr. & Mrs. SmithMovie • 1941
I Married a WitchMovie • 1942
Mr. Deeds Goes to TownMovie • 1936
Broken LullabyMovie • 1932
Son of FrankensteinMovie • 1939
The Talk of the TownMovie • 1942
Life with FatherMovie • 1947
The Cowboy and the LadyMovie • 1938
Each Dawn I DieMovie • 1939
Dance, Girl, DanceMovie • 1940
It Happened TomorrowMovie • 1944
The Woman in WhiteMovie • 1948
The Bad SisterMovie • 1931
Mourning Becomes ElectraMovie • 1947
The Monster and the GirlMovie • 1941
Babes on BroadwayMovie • 1941
Hell's HouseMovie • 1932
Ladies in RetirementMovie • 1941