Ann Shoemaker
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
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Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
1976
Roberta
Roberta
1969
The Fortune Cookie
1966
Mission: Impossible
1966
Sunrise at Campobello
1960
Middle of the Night
Middle of the Night
1954
Revlon Mirror Theatre
1953
House by the River
1950
The Reckless Moment
1949
Shockproof
1949
A Woman's Secret
1949
Wallflower
1948
The Return of the Whistler
1948
Sitting Pretty
1948
Magic Town
1947
Conflict
1945
Boogie Woogie
1945
Phantoms, Inc.
1945
What a Blonde
1945
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
1944
It's Murder
1944
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
1944
Man from Frisco
1944
What a Woman
1943
Above Suspicion
1943
You'll Never Get Rich
1941
Scattergood Pulls the Strings
1941
Ellery Queen, Master Detective
1940
Strike Up the Band
1940
The Girl from Avenue A
1940
My Favorite Wife
1940
An Angel from Texas
1940
Curtain Call
1940
The Farmer's Daughter
1940
The Marines Fly High
1940
Seventeen
1940
Babes in Arms
1939
They All Come Out
1939
Almost a Gentleman
1939
Romance of the Redwoods
1939
The Life of the Party
1937
Stella Dallas
1937
They Won't Forget
1937
Shall We Dance
1937
Sins of Man
1936
Alice Adams
1935
Stranded
1935
A Dog of Flanders
1935
Cheating Cheaters
1934
Dr. Monica
1934
Cross Country Cruise
1934
Chance at Heaven
1933