Emma Dunn
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Emma Dunn (26 February 1875 – 24 December 1966) was an English-American actress.
She gained notoriety in numerous films and Broadway productions after starting her acting career on stage in London.
Personal life
Emma Dunn was born in Birkenhead, England, on February 26, 1875, but she gave her year of birth as 1883.
Harry Beresford, an actor who then went by the name Harry J. Morgan, was married in Chicago on October 4, 1897. They divorced in New York City on February 10th, 1909. Dorothy, the children's infant daughter, was given sole custody. Dunn married John W. Stokes (John W. S. Sullivan), an actor, playwright, and stage manager, on May 1909. Helen was later adopted by them as their second daughter. The couple divorced sometime between 1923 and 1931, but 1931, Stokes' death.
Dunn died in Los Angeles, California, aged 91, after suffering a heart attack a few months before.
Career
Emma Dunn appeared onstage in her early teens, devolving to the London stage for many years and later becoming a well-known Broadway actress. She appeared in Peer Gynt (1906) in the first American production with Richard Mansfield as Peer. Despite being 20 years younger than Mansfield, she played Ase, Peer's mother. 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). Annie, who was black, was depicted in blackface in The Easiest Way by Dunn. Dunn appeared in vain in 1913.
Dunn made her first film in 1914, a silent film of her 1910 stage triumph Mother, directed by Maurice Tourneur. This was Tourneur's first American film. Old Lady 31, a 1920s film reimagining her role in the 1916 Broadway play of the same name, was Dunn's second film. In 1924, Pied Piper Malone, and then she made her sound debut in Side Street, co-starring 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).