Ann Shoemaker

Born: 1891-01-09

Ann Shoemaker (January 10, 1891 - September 18, 1978) was an American actress, known for My Favorite Wife (1940), The Fortune Cookie (1966) and Alice Adams (1935). She was married to Henry Stephenson. She died on September 18, 1978, in Los Angeles, California.


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The Fortune Cookie

as Sister Veronica
Released: 1966-10-19

A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother-in-law, as the king of the...

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Shall We Dance

as Shipboard Gossip Matron
Released: 1937-05-07

Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical...

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Conflict

as Nora Grant
Released: 1945-06-15

Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that...

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My Favorite Wife

as Ma
Released: 1940-05-17

Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of...

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Stella Dallas

as Miss Margaret Phillibrown
Released: 1937-08-06

After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter.

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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

as Mrs. Parker
Released: 1944-11-15

In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a...

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House by the River

as Mrs. Ambrose - Stephen's houseeper
Released: 1950-03-25

Wealthy writer Stephen Byrne tries to seduce the family maid, but when she resists, he kills...

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Magic Town

as Ma Peterman
Released: 1947-10-07

Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of...

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Alice Adams

as Mrs. Adams
Released: 1935-08-23

In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but...

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The Reckless Moment

as Mrs. Catherine Feller (uncredited)
Released: 1949-12-09

After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate...

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You'll Never Get Rich

as Mrs. Barton
Released: 1941-09-25

A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as his...

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A Woman's Secret

as Mrs. Matthews, Brook's Mother
Released: 1949-01-13

A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a...

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Shockproof

as Dr. Daniels (Uncredited)
Released: 1949-01-25

Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful...

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Cross Country Cruise

as Mrs. O'Shaughnessy (Uncredited)
Released: 1934-01-16

A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He...

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Wallflower

as Mrs. James
Released: 1948-06-13

Two stepsisters become rivals for the same handsome bachelor. Comedy.

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They Won't Forget

as Mrs. Mountford
Released: 1937-07-14

A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate...

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Above Suspicion

as Aunt Ellen
Released: 1943-05-31

Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.

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They All Come Out

as Dr. Ellen Hollis
Released: 1939-08-04

A down on his luck young man stumbles into a gang of robbers who all get landed in prison. Will...

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Stranded

as Mrs. Tuthill
Released: 1935-06-29

A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.

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Babes in Arms

as Mrs. Barton
Released: 1939-10-10

Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his...

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Seventeen

as Mary Baxter
Released: 1940-03-01

A high-school student in a small town becomes smitten with the sophisticated new girl who's just...

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Sitting Pretty

as Mrs. Ashcroft (uncredited)
Released: 1948-03-10

Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter....

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Chance at Heaven

as Mrs. Harris
Released: 1933-10-27

A young woman's ambitious boyfriend falls for a ditzy socialite.

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Strike Up the Band

as Mrs. Connors
Released: 1940-09-27

Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest...

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Dr. Monica

as Mrs. Hazlitt
Released: 1934-06-23

A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has...

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Almost a Gentleman

as Mrs. Thompson
Released: 1939-03-31

Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder.

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Sins of Man

as Anna Engel
Released: 1936-06-19

Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche)...

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Curtain Call

as Mrs. Middleton
Released: 1940-04-18

Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring...

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Romance of the Redwoods

as Mother Manning
Released: 1939-03-29

June Martin is a dishwasher in a California logging camp boarding house. Steve Blake fights Jed...

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The Return of the Whistler

as Mrs. Barkley
Released: 1948-03-18

When a woman goes missing on the eve of her wedding, her fiancee hires a detective to track her down

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A Dog of Flanders

as Ilse Cogez
Released: 1935-03-22

Adaptation of Ouida's sentimental classic about a poor Flemish boy (Frankie Thomas) whose...

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Cheating Cheaters

as Mrs. Grace Palmer
Released: 1934-11-05

The Palmers, an apparently wealthy family, move into the house next door to the Lazarres....

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The Girl from Avenue A

as Mrs. Maddox
Released: 1940-08-09

A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source...

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The Farmer's Daughter

as Mrs. Bingham
Released: 1940-03-29

Broadway producer Nickie North and press agent Scoop Trimble find an investor for their next...

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An Angel from Texas

as Addie Lou Coleman
Released: 1940-04-27

A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.

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Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur

as Mrs. Wallace
Released: 1976-01-04

U.S. President Harry S Truman and his commander in the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur,...

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The Marines Fly High

as Mrs. Hill
Released: 1940-03-04

Marine lieutenants Dan and Jim fight bandits in the South American jungle, while competing for...

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Scattergood Pulls the Strings

as Mrs. Downs
Released: 1941-05-23

Small-town store owner Scattergood Baines helps a runaway boy find his father, who has escaped...

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Ellery Queen, Master Detective

as Lydia Braun
Released: 1940-11-30

Famed detective and crime novelist Ellery Queen solves a case involving the suspicious death of...

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What a Woman

as Senator's Wife (uncredited)
Released: 1943-12-29

An author and a literary agent become involved after selling film rights to his racy book.

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The Life of the Party

as Countess Martos
Released: 1937-09-03

A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.

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Phantoms, Inc.

as Mrs. Martha Kenneson
Released: 1945-06-09

This Crime Does Not Pay entry focuses on fake spiritualists. A mother is worried about her son,...

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What a Blonde

as Mrs. DaFoe
Released: 1945-02-03

American gas rationing during WWII results in comic mayhem as a lingerie executive finds his...

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Man from Frisco

as Martha Kennedy
Released: 1944-06-15

Matt Braddock is a civil engineer during World War II who has new ideas for shipbuilding....

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Sunrise at Campobello

as Sara Delano Roosevelt
Released: 1960-09-28

The story of Franklin Roosevelt's bout with polio at age 40 in 1921 and how his family (and...

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