Acting

Ann Shoemaker

Born 1891-01-09 · Brooklyn, New York, USA

Died 1978-09-18

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.

Credits

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Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
as Mrs. Wallace
1976
Roberta
as Aunt Minnie
1969
The Fortune Cookie
as Sister Veronica
1966
Mission: Impossible
as Madame Prokov
1966
Sunrise at Campobello
as Sara Delano Roosevelt
1960
Middle of the Night
as Millie
1954
Revlon Mirror Theatre
1953
House by the River
as Mrs. Ambrose
1950
The Reckless Moment
as Mrs. Catherine Feller (uncredited)
1949
Shockproof
as Dr. Daniels (Uncredited)
1949
A Woman's Secret
as Mrs. Matthews, Brook's Mother
1949
Wallflower
as Mrs. James
1948
The Return of the Whistler
as Mrs. Barkley
1948
Sitting Pretty
as Mrs. Ashcroft (uncredited)
1948
Magic Town
as Ma Peterman
1947
Conflict
as Nora Grant
1945
Boogie Woogie
as Mrs. Stumplefinger
1945
Phantoms, Inc.
as Mrs. Martha Kenneson
1945
What a Blonde
as Mrs. DaFoe
1945
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
as Mrs. Parker
1944
It's Murder
as Mrs Nelson
1944
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
1944
Man from Frisco
as Martha Kennedy
1944
What a Woman
as Senator's Wife (uncredited)
1943
Above Suspicion
as Aunt Ellen
1943
You'll Never Get Rich
as Mrs. Barton
1941
Scattergood Pulls the Strings
as Mrs. Downs
1941
Ellery Queen, Master Detective
as Lydia Braun
1940
Strike Up the Band
as Mrs. Connors
1940
The Girl from Avenue A
as Mrs. Maddox
1940
My Favorite Wife
as Ma
1940
An Angel from Texas
as Addie Lou Coleman
1940
Curtain Call
as Mrs. Middleton
1940
The Farmer's Daughter
as Mrs. Bingham
1940
The Marines Fly High
as Mrs. Hill
1940
Seventeen
as Mary Baxter
1940
Babes in Arms
as Mrs. Barton
1939
They All Come Out
as Dr. Ellen Hollis
1939
Almost a Gentleman
as Mrs. Thompson
1939
Romance of the Redwoods
as Mother Manning
1939
The Life of the Party
as Countess Martos
1937
Stella Dallas
as Miss Margaret Phillibrown
1937
They Won't Forget
as Mrs. Mountford
1937
Shall We Dance
as Matron
1937
Sins of Man
as Anna Engel
1936
Alice Adams
as Mrs. Adams
1935
Stranded
as Mrs. Tuthill
1935
A Dog of Flanders
as Ilse Cogez
1935
Cheating Cheaters
as Mrs. Grace Palmer
1934
Dr. Monica
as Mrs. Hazlitt
1934
Cross Country Cruise
as Mrs. O'Shaughnessy (Uncredited)
1934
Chance at Heaven
as Mrs. Harris
1933