Edna May Oliver
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Known forActing
GenderFemale
Birthday8 November 1883
Died9 November 1942 (age 59)
Place of birthMalden, Massachusetts, USA
Known credits50
Biography
Edna May Oliver (November 9, 1883 – November 9, 1942) was an American stage and film actress. During the 1930s, she was one of the best-known character actresses in American films, often playing tart-tongued spinsters. She was born Edna May Nutter in Malden, Massachusetts. The daughter of Ida May and Charles Edward Nutter, Edna was a descendant of the 6th American president John Quincy Adams. Miss Oliver took an early interest in the stage, and she would quit school at the age of 14 to pursue her ambitions in the theater. Despite abandoning traditional schooling, Edna continued to study the…
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
1999 · Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]) (archive footage)
Brasileiros em Hollywood
1970 · Self (archive footage)
Lydia
1941 · Sarah MacMillan
Pride and Prejudice
1940 · Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Drums Along the Mohawk
1939 · Mrs. Mc Klennar
Nurse Edith Cavell
1939 · Countess de Mavon
Second Fiddle
1939 · Aunt Phoebe
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
1939 · Maggie Sutton
Little Miss Broadway
1938 · Sarah Wendling
Paradise for Three
1938 · Mrs. Kunkel
Rosalie
1937 · Queen of Romanza
My Dear Miss Aldrich
1937 · Mrs. Atherton
Parnell
1937 · Aunt Ben Wood
Romeo and Juliet
1936 · Juliet's Nurse
A Tale of Two Cities
1935 · Miss Pross
No More Ladies
1935 · Fanny 'Grandma' Townsend
Murder on a Honeymoon
1935 · Hildegarde Withers
David Copperfield
1935 · Aunt Betsey Trotwood
We're Rich Again
1934 · Maude Stanley
Murder on the Blackboard
1934 · Hildegarde Withers
The Last Gentleman
1934 · Augusta Pritchard, Cabot's sister
The Poor Rich
1934 · Harriet Spottiswood
Alice in Wonderland
1933 · Red Queen
Little Women
1933 · Aunt March
Only Yesterday
1933 · Leona
Meet the Baron
1933 · Dean Primrose
Ann Vickers
1933 · Malvina Wormser
It's Great to Be Alive
1933 · Dr. Prodwell
The Great Jasper
1933 · Madame Talma
The Penguin Pool Murder
1932 · Hildegarde Withers
The Conquerors
1932 · Matilda Blake
Hold 'Em Jail
1932 · Violet Jones
Ladies of the Jury
1932 · Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane
Fanny Foley Herself
1931 · Fanny Foley
Newly Rich
1931 · Bessie Tate
Cracked Nuts
1931 · Aunt Minnie Van Varden
Laugh and Get Rich
1931 · Sarah Cranston Austin
Cimarron
1931 · Mrs. Tracy Wyatt
Half Shot at Sunrise
1930 · Mrs. Marshall
The Saturday Night Kid
1929 · Miss Streeter
Let's Get Married
1926 · J.W. Smith
The American Venus
1926 · Mrs. Niles
Lovers in Quarantine
1925 · Amelia Pincent
The Lucky Devil
1925 · Mrs. McDee
The Lady Who Lied
1925
Manhattan
1924 · Mrs. Trapes
Icebound
1924 · Hannah
Restless Wives
1924 · Benson's Secretary
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