May Whitty

Biography

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 to live in America, where she won awards for her film roles. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Movies & TV Shows

1. The Lady Vanishes (1938) — Miss Froy
2. Suspicion (1941) — Mrs. McLaidlaw
3. Gaslight (1944) — Miss Thwaites
4. Mrs. Miniver (1942) — Lady Beldon
5. Lassie Come Home (1943) — Dally
6. My Name Is Julia Ross (1945) — Mrs. Hughes
7. Madame Curie (1943) — Madame Eugene Curie
8. Night Must Fall (1937) — Mrs. Bramson
9. Crash Dive (1943) — Grandmother
10. The Constant Nymph (1943) — Lady Constance Longborough
11. Conquest (1937) — Laetitia Bonaparte
12. The White Cliffs of Dover (1944) — Nanny
13. Green Dolphin Street (1947) — Mother Superior
14. Flesh and Fantasy (1943) — Pamela Hardwick (segment 2)
15. Raffles (1939) — Lady Melrose
16. Stage Door Canteen (1943) — Dame May Whitty
17. The Sign of the Ram (1948) — Clara Brastock
18. Devotion (1946) — Lady Thornton
19. Forever and a Day (1943) — Lucy Trimble
20. Keep Your Seats, Please (1936) — Aunt Georgina Withers
21. The Thirteenth Chair (1937) — Mrs O'Neill aka Madame Rosalie la Grange
22. Thunder Birds (1942) — Lady Jane Stackhouse
23. Slightly Dangerous (1943) — Baba
24. The Return of October (1948) — Aunt Martha Grant
25. Return to Yesterday (1940) — Mrs Emily Truscott
26. This Time for Keeps (1947) — Grandmother Cambaretti
27. If Winter Comes (1947) — Mrs. Perch
28. I Met My Love Again (1938) — Aunt William
29. A Bill of Divorcement (1940) — Aunt Hester Fairfield
30. One Night In Lisbon (1941) — Florence
31. Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 (1942)
32. The Little Minister (1915) — Nanny Webster