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Ann Shoemaker
Acting
09 Jan 1891
† 18 Sept 1978
Brooklyn, New York, USA
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.
Also Known As
Anne Dorothea Shoemaker
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Ann Shoemaker's Movies
72%
The Fortune Cookie
19 Oct 1966
70%
My Favorite Wife
17 May 1940
68%
The Reckless Moment
09 Dec 1949
73%
Shall We Dance
07 May 1937
68%
House by the River
23 Mar 1950
69%
Stella Dallas
06 Aug 1937
67%
Conflict
15 Jun 1945
67%
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
15 Nov 1944
65%
You'll Never Get Rich
25 Sept 1941
67%
Alice Adams
23 Aug 1935
71%
Sitting Pretty
10 Mar 1948
56%
A Woman's Secret
13 Jan 1949
64%
Babes in Arms
10 Oct 1939
63%
Shockproof
25 Jan 1949
62%
Above Suspicion
31 May 1943
59%
They Won't Forget
14 Jul 1937
67%
Magic Town
07 Oct 1947
66%
Strike Up the Band
27 Sept 1940
60%
The Return of the Whistler
18 Mar 1948
60%
Sunrise at Campobello
28 Sept 1960
