Ann Shoemaker

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Ann Shoemaker (born January 10, 1891 in Brooklyn , New York City , † September 18, 1978 in Los Angeles , California ; actually Anne Dorothea Shoemaker ) was an American actress .

Life

Ann Shoemaker was born in 1891 to Capt. Charles Shoemaker, chief of the US Revenue Cutter Service, later the United States Coast Guard , was born in Brooklyn . Her brother was the Rear Admiral W. R. Shoemaker. She initially worked as a stage actress for several years, and from 1926 on New York's Broadway . In 1928 she stood in front of the film camera for the first time in Hollywood . A series of films followed, in which she mostly played mother roles. She played the mother of Katharine Hepburn in Alice Adams (1935) and the mother of Irene Dunne in My Favorite Woman (1940) . In the film musical Reich you will never be seen in 1941 alongside Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth . From 1950 she also appeared several times on American television. In 1960, she played the mother of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the biography Sunrise at Campobello . She had already played the same role from 1958 to 1959 in the play of the same name on Broadway. She was active as an actress until old age. In 1976, she stood for the last time in front of the camera for the television series Gemini Man .

She had a daughter with her husband, the actor Henry Stephenson , with whom she was married from 1922 until his death in 1956. Ann Shoemaker died of cancer in 1978 in Los Angeles at the age of 87 . She was buried in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Ann Shoemaker  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Benjamin H. Shoemaker: Shoemaker Pioneers: The Early Genealogy and History of the Colonial Shoemaker Families Who Came to America Before the Revolution . Shoemaker, 1975, p. 91.
  2. ^ John Springer, Jack D. Hamilton: They Had Faces Then: Super Stars, Stars, and Starlets of the 1930's . Citadel Press, 1974, ISBN 0-8065-0300-9 , p. 327.
personal data
SURNAME Shoemaker, Ann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shoemaker, Anne Dorothea (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City , New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1978
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States