Ann Shoemaker

Ann Shoemaker

Born: January 9, 1891
Died: September 18, 1978
in Brooklyn, New York, USA
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.

Movies for Ann Shoemaker...

Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
Title: Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
Character: Mrs. Wallace
Released: January 4, 1976
Type: Movie
U.S. President Harry S Truman and his commander in the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur, disagree on war strategy. Their conflict comes to a head when Truman relieves the insubordinate MacArthur from command.
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Roberta
Title: Roberta
Character: Aunt Minnie
Released: November 6, 1969
Type: Movie
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The Fortune Cookie
Title: The Fortune Cookie
Character: Sister Veronica
Released: October 19, 1966
Type: Movie
A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother-in-law, as the king of the ambulance-chasing lawyers, starts a suit while he's still knocked out. The cameraman is against it until he hears that his ex-wife will be coming to see him. He pretends to be injured to get her back, but also sees what the strain is doing to the football player who injured him.
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Sunrise at Campobello
Title: Sunrise at Campobello
Character: Sara Delano Roosevelt
Released: September 28, 1960
Type: Movie
The story of Franklin Roosevelt's bout with polio at age 40 in 1921 and how his family (and especially wife Eleanor) cope with his illness. From being stricken while vacationing at Campobello to his triumphant nominating speech for Al Smith's presidency in 1924, the story follows the various influences on his life and his determination to recover - based on the award winning Broadway play of the same name.
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Middle of the Night
Title: Middle of the Night
Character: Millie
Released: September 9, 1954
Type: Movie
A young divorcée becomes involved with her widowed boss.
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House by the River
Title: House by the River
Character: Mrs. Ambrose - Stephen's houseeper
Released: March 25, 1950
Type: Movie
Wealthy writer Stephen Byrne tries to seduce the family maid, but when she resists, he kills her. Long jealous of his brother John, Stephen does his best to pin the blame for the murder on his sibling. Also affected by Stephen's arrogant dementia is his long-suffering wife Marjorie.
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The Reckless Moment
Title: The Reckless Moment
Character: Mrs. Catherine Feller (uncredited)
Released: December 9, 1949
Type: Movie
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
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Shockproof
Title: Shockproof
Character: Dr. Daniels (Uncredited)
Released: January 25, 1949
Type: Movie
Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful eye of her parole officer, Griff Marat, who helps her secure a job caring for his ailing mother.
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A Woman's Secret
Title: A Woman's Secret
Character: Mrs. Matthews, Brook's Mother
Released: January 13, 1949
Type: Movie
A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal piano player, Luke Jordan, helps to promote a new, younger singer, Susan Caldwell, to temporarily replace Marian. Susan finds some early acclaim but decides to leave the club after a few performances. Soon after Susan quits, she is gunned down, and Marian quickly becomes a suspect.
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Wallflower
Title: Wallflower
Character: Mrs. James
Released: June 13, 1948
Type: Movie
Two stepsisters become rivals for the same handsome bachelor. Comedy.
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The Return of the Whistler
Title: The Return of the Whistler
Character: Mrs. Barkley
Released: March 18, 1948
Type: Movie
When a woman goes missing on the eve of her wedding, her fiancee hires a detective to track her down
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Sitting Pretty
Title: Sitting Pretty
Character: Mrs. Ashcroft (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1948
Type: Movie
Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.
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Magic Town
Title: Magic Town
Character: Ma Peterman
Released: October 7, 1947
Type: Movie
Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country. He and his assistants go there to run polls cheaply and easily, in total secrecy (it would be fatal to let the townsfolk get self-conscious). And of course, civic crusader Mary Peterman must be kept from changing things too much. But romantic involvement with Mary complicates life for Rip; then suddenly everything changes.
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Conflict
Title: Conflict
Character: Nora Grant
Released: June 15, 1945
Type: Movie
Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.
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Phantoms, Inc.
Title: Phantoms, Inc.
Character: Mrs. Martha Kenneson
Released: June 9, 1945
Type: Movie
This Crime Does Not Pay entry focuses on fake spiritualists. A mother is worried about her son, who is missing in action. Over time, she gives a con man all of the family savings to find reassurance that her son is all right. When she can no longer pay, events take a tragic turn.
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What a Blonde
Title: What a Blonde
Character: Mrs. DaFoe
Released: February 3, 1945
Type: Movie
American gas rationing during WWII results in comic mayhem as a lingerie executive finds his home overrun with showgirls.
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Title: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Character: Mrs. Parker
Released: November 15, 1944
Type: Movie
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.
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Man from Frisco
Title: Man from Frisco
Character: Martha Kennedy
Released: June 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Matt Braddock is a civil engineer during World War II who has new ideas for shipbuilding. Braddock tries to establish yards for building prefabricated ships on the West Coast, but he is hindered by the former superintendent of the shipyard, Joel Kennedy. A disappointed lover fails to deliver an important message on welds and it leads to the collapse of a new ship's superstructure and the death of a boy.
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What a Woman
Title: What a Woman
Character: Senator's Wife (uncredited)
Released: December 29, 1943
Type: Movie
An author and a literary agent become involved after selling film rights to his racy book.
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Above Suspicion
Title: Above Suspicion
Character: Aunt Ellen
Released: May 31, 1943
Type: Movie
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
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You'll Never Get Rich
Title: You'll Never Get Rich
Character: Mrs. Barton
Released: September 25, 1941
Type: Movie
A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as his object of affection’s boyfriend.
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Scattergood Pulls the Strings
Title: Scattergood Pulls the Strings
Character: Mrs. Downs
Released: May 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Small-town store owner Scattergood Baines helps a runaway boy find his father, who has escaped after being unjustly imprisoned, and a young chemist who is trying to invent a color television but is being opposed by his girlfriend's father, who wants the girl to marry a pharmacist like himself instead of some crazy inventor.
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Ellery Queen, Master Detective
Title: Ellery Queen, Master Detective
Character: Lydia Braun
Released: November 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Famed detective and crime novelist Ellery Queen solves a case involving the suspicious death of a rich man whose inheritors fight over his estate.
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Strike Up the Band
Title: Strike Up the Band
Character: Mrs. Connors
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between schools is coming up and they have a hard time raising money to go to Chicago for the contest.
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The Girl from Avenue A
Title: The Girl from Avenue A
Character: Mrs. Maddox
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material for a playwright.
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My Favorite Wife
Title: My Favorite Wife
Character: Ma
Released: May 17, 1940
Type: Movie
Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her husband recently remarrying. But he too gets a shock when he learns that Ellen spent her time alone on an island with another man.
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An Angel from Texas
Title: An Angel from Texas
Character: Addie Lou Coleman
Released: April 27, 1940
Type: Movie
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.
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Curtain Call
Title: Curtain Call
Character: Mrs. Middleton
Released: April 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find.
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The Farmer's Daughter
Title: The Farmer's Daughter
Character: Mrs. Bingham
Released: March 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Broadway producer Nickie North and press agent Scoop Trimble find an investor for their next show who insists that they cast his ex-girlfriend, Clarice Sheldon, in the lead role and rehearse out of town. The crew set up on a family farm, and all is well until the leading man falls for the farmer's daughter, Patience Bingham. When flighty starlet Sheldon finds out he has a new girlfriend, she takes off, leaving North and Trimble to find a new leading lady.
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The Marines Fly High
Title: The Marines Fly High
Character: Mrs. Hill
Released: March 4, 1940
Type: Movie
Marine lieutenants Dan and Jim fight bandits in the South American jungle, while competing for the attention of beautiful Joan Grant.
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Seventeen
Title: Seventeen
Character: Mary Baxter
Released: March 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A high-school student in a small town becomes smitten with the sophisticated new girl who's just arrived from Chicago. Based on Booth Tarkington's story.
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Babes in Arms
Title: Babes in Arms
Character: Mrs. Barton
Released: October 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wants to make a comeback and replace Patsy both professionally and as Mickey's girl.
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They All Come Out
Title: They All Come Out
Character: Dr. Ellen Hollis
Released: August 4, 1939
Type: Movie
A down on his luck young man stumbles into a gang of robbers who all get landed in prison. Will he be reformed, or is he ensnared into a life of crime?
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Almost a Gentleman
Title: Almost a Gentleman
Character: Mrs. Thompson
Released: March 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder.
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Romance of the Redwoods
Title: Romance of the Redwoods
Character: Mother Manning
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
June Martin is a dishwasher in a California logging camp boarding house. Steve Blake fights Jed Malone for her and loses, thus casting suspicion on himself when Malone dies under cloudy circumstances.
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The Life of the Party
Title: The Life of the Party
Character: Countess Martos
Released: September 3, 1937
Type: Movie
A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.
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Stella Dallas
Title: Stella Dallas
Character: Miss Margaret Phillibrown
Released: August 6, 1937
Type: Movie
After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter.
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They Won't Forget
Title: They Won't Forget
Character: Mrs. Mountford
Released: July 14, 1937
Type: Movie
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right victim to finger for the crime. He sets out to convict Robert Hale, a transplanted northerner who was Mary's teacher at the business school where she was killed. Despite the fact that all the evidence against Hale is circumstantial, Griffin works with a ruthless reporter to create a media frenzy of prejudice and hate against the teacher.
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Shall We Dance
Title: Shall We Dance
Character: Shipboard Gossip Matron
Released: May 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.
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Sins of Man
Title: Sins of Man
Character: Anna Engel
Released: June 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI bombing.
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Alice Adams
Title: Alice Adams
Character: Mrs. Adams
Released: August 23, 1935
Type: Movie
In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climbing stratagem despite snubs and embarrassment. When Alice finally meets her dream man Arthur, mother nags father into a risky business venture and plans to impress Alice's beau with an "upscale" family dinner. Will the excruciating results drive Arthur away?
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Stranded
Title: Stranded
Character: Mrs. Tuthill
Released: June 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
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A Dog of Flanders
Title: A Dog of Flanders
Character: Ilse Cogez
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
Adaptation of Ouida's sentimental classic about a poor Flemish boy (Frankie Thomas) whose ambition is to become a painter.
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Cheating Cheaters
Title: Cheating Cheaters
Character: Mrs. Grace Palmer
Released: November 5, 1934
Type: Movie
The Palmers, an apparently wealthy family, move into the house next door to the Lazarres. However, the Palmers are actually a gang of thieves plotting to rob the Lazarres.
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Dr. Monica
Title: Dr. Monica
Character: Mrs. Hazlitt
Released: June 23, 1934
Type: Movie
A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has impregnated her best friend.
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Cross Country Cruise
Title: Cross Country Cruise
Character: Mrs. O'Shaughnessy (Uncredited)
Released: January 16, 1934
Type: Movie
A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murder. However, a playboy character who had been flirting with the woman earlier turns amateur detective and clears her.
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Chance at Heaven
Title: Chance at Heaven
Character: Mrs. Harris
Released: October 27, 1933
Type: Movie
A young woman's ambitious boyfriend falls for a ditzy socialite.