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