May Whitty
Dame Mary Louise Webster, DBE (19 June 1865 – 29 May 1948), known professionally as May Whitty and later, for her charity work, Dame May Whitty, was an English stage and film actress. She was one of the first two women entertainers to become a Dame. The British actors union Equity was established in her home. After a successful career she moved over to Hollywood films at the age of 72. She went...
Dame Mary Louise Webster, DBE (19 June 1865 – 29 May 1948), known professionally as May Whitty and later, for her charity work, Dame May Whitty, was an English stage and film actress. She was one of the first two women entertainers to become a Dame. The British actors union Equity was established in her home. After a successful career she moved over to Hollywood films at the age of 72. She went...
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The Return of October
as Aunt Martha Grant
The Sign of the Ram
as Clara Brastock
If Winter Comes
as Mrs. Perch
This Time for Keeps
as Grandmother Cambaretti
Green Dolphin Street
as Mother Superior
Devotion
as Lady Thornton
My Name Is Julia Ross
as Mrs. Hughes
The White Cliffs of Dover
as Nanny
Gaslight
as Miss Thwaites
Madame Curie
as Madame Eugene Curie
Lassie Come Home
as Dally
Flesh and Fantasy
as Pamela Hardwick (segment 2)
Stage Door Canteen
as Dame May Whitty
The Constant Nymph
as Lady Constance Longborough
Crash Dive
as Grandmother
Slightly Dangerous
as Baba
Forever and a Day
as Lucy Trimble
Thunder Birds
as Lady Jane Stackhouse
Mrs. Miniver
as Lady Beldon
Suspicion
as Mrs. McLaidlaw
One Night In Lisbon
as Florence
A Bill of Divorcement
as Aunt Hester Fairfield
Return to Yesterday
as Mrs Emily Truscott
Raffles
as Lady Melrose
The Lady Vanishes
as Miss Froy
I Met My Love Again
as Aunt William
Conquest
as Laetitia Bonaparte
The Thirteenth Chair
as Mrs O'Neill aka Madame Rosalie la Grange
Night Must Fall
as Mrs. Bramson
Keep Your Seats, Please
as Aunt Georgina Withers