May Robson
May Robson ( born April 19, 1858 in Melbourne, Victoria, † October 20, 1942 in Beverly Hills, California; actually Mary Jeanette Robison ) was an Australian actress. It is the oldest of the birth cohort person that has ever been nominated for an Oscar and had a bigger career in Hollywood.
Life and career
May Robson was born as the fourth child of Captain Henry Robinson and his wife Julia. Her father died when she was seven years old and the family moved to England. At the age of only 16, she married her first husband Charles Livingstone Gore, who went with her to New York, and there died in 1882. First, she worked as an art teacher to support her three children, and then in 1883 Actress. However, two of her children died soon after, only son of Edward Gore survived. In 1889, she married Augustus Homer Brown in a second marriage, a police officer, with whom she remained married until his death in 1920.
Her acting career has focused most of the time of a total of 56 years in the theater, Robson was successful both as a character actress and as a comedienne. Later you also had its own theater company. In 1915 she made a guest appearance in the film How Molly Made God, but her film appearances in the silent film remained scarce. In 1927 she established herself in Hollywood as one of the most successful actresses of her generation, including in movies like I dance for you and Dinner at Eight.
With 75 years of Robson was nominated in 1933 for the presentation of an apple seller in Lady for a Day for Best Actress Oscar. So she was the oldest Oscar-nominated person for several years. It is the oldest of the birth cohort oscar nominee of all time. Several other comedies such as His secretary as the mother of Clark Gable, as well as leopard Up Baby Katharine Hepburn's not as resoulute millionaire aunt, she appeared in the following years. However, they do also embodied characters in serious dramas, such as Countess Vronsky Anna Karenina or A star shall come as a sharp-tongued grandmother. In Granny, Get you Gun they still played 82 years with Harry Davenport the lead roles.
Her last more than 60 films was Joan of Paris, Paul Henreid. It was released in the year she died. May Robson died on 20 October 1942 at the age of 84 from cancer. In its obituary, the New York Times Robson called the "Queen Mother of the American stage and films." ( " Dowager queen of the American screen and stage " )