Ann Shoemaker
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.7575 |
| Birthday | 1891-01-09 |
| Place of Birth | Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Anne Dorothea Shoemaker, |
1966
The Fortune Cookie
7.2/361
TV cameraman Harry Hinkle is injured while filming a football game. Seeing big dollar signs, his unscrupulous ambulance-chasing lawyer brother-in-law...
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The Fortune Cookie
1950
House by the River
6.792/120
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 b...
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House by the River
1941
Scattergood Pulls the Strings
7/1
Small-town store owner Scattergood Baines helps a runaway boy find his father, who has escaped after being unjustly imprisoned, and a young chemist wh...
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Scattergood Pulls the Strings
1943
Above Suspicion
6.192/39
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
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Above Suspicion
1948
The Return of the Whistler
6.029/17
When a woman goes missing on the eve of her wedding, her fiancee hires a detective to track her down
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The Return of the Whistler
1945
Conflict
6.711/83
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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Conflict
1937
Stella Dallas
6.83/100
A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.
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Stella Dallas
1935
Alice Adams
6.7/63
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-climb...
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Alice Adams
1937
They Won't Forget
5.9/33
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with polit...
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They Won't Forget
1940
Ellery Queen, Master Detective
5.8/5
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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Ellery Queen, Master Detective
1960
Sunrise at Campobello
6.033/15
The story of Franklin Roosevelt's bout with polio at age 40 in 1921 and how his family (and especially his wife Eleanor) cope with his illness. From b...
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Sunrise at Campobello
1949
A Woman's Secret
5.604/48
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 p...
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A Woman's Secret
1944
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
6.7/70
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 Jap...
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
1934
Dr. Monica
5/8
A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has impregnated her best friend.
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Dr. Monica
1976
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
4/1
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...
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Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
1969
Roberta
6.5/2
Bob Hope returns to his stage role in this updated theatrical TV presentation of the musical
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Roberta
1954
Middle of the Night
0/0
A young divorcée becomes involved with her widowed boss.
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Middle of the Night
1935
Stranded
6/6
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
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Stranded
1948
Wallflower
6.571/7
Two stepsisters become rivals for the same handsome bachelor. Comedy.
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Wallflower
1940
Seventeen
9/1
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 sto...
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Seventeen
1939
They All Come Out
5.875/8
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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They All Come Out
1947
Magic Town
6.714/35
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....
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Magic Town
1945
What a Blonde
4.25/4
American gas rationing during WWII results in comic mayhem as a lingerie executive finds his home overrun with showgirls.
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What a Blonde
1940
The Marines Fly High
5.286/7
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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The Marines Fly High
1937
The Life of the Party
6.2/5
A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.
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The Life of the Party
1940
Strike Up the Band
6.6/27
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 raisi...
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Strike Up the Band
1935
A Dog of Flanders
7.5/2
Adaptation of Ouida's sentimental classic about a poor Flemish boy (Frankie Thomas) whose ambition is to become a painter.
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A Dog of Flanders
1937
Shall We Dance
7.3/124
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 th...
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Shall We Dance
1939
Almost a Gentleman
8/2
Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder.
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Almost a Gentleman
1948
Sitting Pretty
7.1/49
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,...
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Sitting Pretty
1939
Babes in Arms
6.413/46
Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wa...
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Babes in Arms
1940
The Farmer's Daughter
5.3/6
Broadway producer Nicksie North and press agent Scoop Trimble find an investor for their next show who insists that they cast his ex-girlfriend, Clari...
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The Farmer's Daughter
1936
Sins of Man
9/1
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 secon...
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Sins of Man
1939
Romance of the Redwoods
7/2
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 hi...
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Romance of the Redwoods
1940
An Angel from Texas
5.333/6
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.
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An Angel from Texas
1945
Boogie Woogie
10/1
While his wife is away, Frederick Stumplefinger lets his kids go out jitterbugging on a school night, only to have his wife return early.
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Boogie Woogie
1944
Man from Frisco
6.5/2
Matt Braddock is a civil engineer during World War II who has new ideas for shipbuilding. Braddock tries to establish yards for building prefabricated...
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Man from Frisco
1940
My Favorite Wife
7.009/176
Years after her ship disappeared, a presumably dead woman returns home. To her shock, she finds her husband has remarried.
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My Favorite Wife
1943
What a Woman
6.3/5
An author and a literary agent become involved after selling film rights to his racy book.
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What a Woman
1949
The Reckless Moment
6.754/140
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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The Reckless Moment
1933
Chance at Heaven
5.8/11
A young woman's ambitious boyfriend falls for a ditzy socialite.
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Chance at Heaven
1945
Phantoms, Inc.
6/6
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 m...
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Phantoms, Inc.
1940
Curtain Call
7.25/4
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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Curtain Call
1934
Cheating Cheaters
7/1
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...
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Cheating Cheaters
1949
Shockproof
6.3/45
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 s...
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Shockproof
1941
You'll Never Get Rich
6.452/63
A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as the boyfriend of his object of affection.
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You'll Never Get Rich
1934
Cross Country Cruise
6.7/3
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 murde...
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Cross Country Cruise
1940
The Girl from Avenue A
7.5/2
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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The Girl from Avenue A
1944
It's Murder
7.5/2
Documentary short film explaining the need for secrecy in the exchange of sensitive government information, so as to prevent sabotage or subversion of...
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It's Murder
1944
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
7.1/12
Wilbert Winkle, a henpecked, mild-mannered, middle-aged bank clerk and handyman finds himself in the midst of battle in the South Pacific.
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