Ann Shoemaker
Ann Shoemaker (born 10 January 1891 in Brooklyn, New York, † September 18, 1978 in Los Angeles, actually Anne Dorothea Shoemaker ) was an American actress.
Life
Ann Shoemaker in 1891 as the daughter of Capt.. Charles Shoemaker, Chief of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service, later the United States Coast Guard, born in Brooklyn. Her brother was the Rear Admiral W. R. Shoemaker. First, she worked for several years as a theater actress, from 1926, at New York's Broadway. In 1928 she was in Hollywood for the first time in front of the movie camera. There followed a series of films in which she usually took mother roles. She played in Alice Adams ( 1935) the mother of Katharine Hepburn and My favorite wife ( My Favorite Wife, 1940), the mother of Irene Dunne. In the movie musical realm you will never ( You'll Never Get Rich ) it was 1941, next to Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth to see. From 1950 she also appeared several times on the U.S. television. In 1960 she portrayed in the biopic Sunrise at Campobello, the mother of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The same role she had already played from 1958 to 1959 in the same stage play on Broadway. Into old age, she was active as a performer. In 1976 she stood for the TV series Gemini Man one last time before the camera.
With her husband, the actor Henry Stephenson, who died in 1956, she had a daughter. Ann Shoemaker died in 1978 at the age of 87 years in Los Angeles from cancer. She was on the Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York, buried.