Ann Shoemaker
Born: 1891-01-09 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
Died: 1978-09-18
Known For: Acting
Biography
Ann Shoemaker was an American character actress whose prolific career spanned over five decades across theater, radio, film and television. She appeared in roughly 70 films and TV movies between 1928 and 1976, frequently portraying refined, commanding or maternal figures, most famously playing Sara Delano Roosevelt (the mother of FDR) on both Broadway and in the acclaimed 1960 film adaptation of Sunrise at Campobello.
Filmography
1976
- Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur as Mrs. Wallace
1969
- Roberta as Aunt Minnie
1966
- Mission: Impossible as Madame Prokov
- The Fortune Cookie as Sister Veronica
1960
- Sunrise at Campobello as Sara Delano Roosevelt
1954
- Middle of the Night as Millie
1950
- House by the River as Mrs. Ambrose - Stephen's houseeper
1949
- The Reckless Moment as Mrs. Catherine Feller (uncredited)
- Shockproof as Dr. Daniels (Uncredited)
- A Woman's Secret as Mrs. Matthews, Brook's Mother
1948
- Sitting Pretty as Mrs. Ashcroft (uncredited)
- The Return of the Whistler as Mrs. Barkley
- Wallflower as Mrs. James
1947
- Magic Town as Ma Peterman
1945
- Phantoms, Inc. as Mrs. Martha Kenneson
- Conflict as Nora Grant
- Boogie Woogie as Mrs. Stumplefinger
- What a Blonde as Mrs. DaFoe
1944
- Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo as Mrs. Parker
- It's Murder as Mrs Nelson
- Mr. Winkle Goes to War
- Man from Frisco as Martha Kennedy
1943
- Above Suspicion as Aunt Ellen
- What a Woman as Senator's Wife (uncredited)
1941
- You'll Never Get Rich as Mrs. Barton
- Scattergood Pulls the Strings as Mrs. Downs
1940
- My Favorite Wife as Ma
- Strike Up the Band as Mrs. Connors
- An Angel from Texas as Addie Lou Coleman
- The Marines Fly High as Mrs. Hill
- The Farmer's Daughter as Mrs. Bingham
- Ellery Queen, Master Detective as Lydia Braun
- The Girl from Avenue A as Mrs. Maddox
- Curtain Call as Mrs. Middleton
- Seventeen as Mary Baxter
1939
- Babes in Arms as Mrs. Barton
- They All Come Out as Dr. Ellen Hollis
- Romance of the Redwoods as Mother Manning
- Almost a Gentleman as Mrs. Thompson
1937
- Stella Dallas as Miss Margaret Phillibrown
- Shall We Dance as Matron
- They Won't Forget as Mrs. Mountford
- The Life of the Party as Countess Martos
1936
- Sins of Man as Anna Engel
1935
- Alice Adams as Mrs. Adams
- Stranded as Mrs. Tuthill
- A Dog of Flanders as Ilse Cogez
1934
- Cheating Cheaters as Mrs. Grace Palmer
- Cross Country Cruise as Mrs. O'Shaughnessy (Uncredited)
- Dr. Monica as Mrs. Hazlitt
1933
- Chance at Heaven as Mrs. Harris