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