Ann Shoemaker
Acting
Born January 9, 1891 · Brooklyn, New York, USA
Biography
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 · 40 titles
Mission: Impossible
Revlon Mirror Theatre
My Favorite Wife
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
The Fortune Cookie
Shall We Dance
Babes in Arms
Magic Town
The Reckless Moment
Chance at Heaven
House by the River
You'll Never Get Rich
Above Suspicion
Phantoms, Inc.
Stella Dallas
Conflict
A Woman's Secret
Strike Up the Band
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
Cheating Cheaters
The Life of the Party
Sitting Pretty
Boogie Woogie
Alice Adams
Sunrise at Campobello
They All Come Out
Ellery Queen, Master Detective
Shockproof
Roberta
Curtain Call
Middle of the Night
It's Murder
An Angel from Texas
They Won't Forget
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
Sins of Man
The Farmer's Daughter
What a Woman
Romance of the Redwoods
The Return of the Whistler