- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- November 8, 1883
- Place of Birth
- Malden, Massachusetts, USA
- Died
- November 9, 1942
Edna May Oliver
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 performing arts, including speech and piano. One of her first jobs was as pianist with an all female orchestra which toured America around the turn of the century. By 1917 she had achieved success on Broadway in the hit play "Oh, Boy". By 1923 she had appeared in her first film. Edna May Oliver see…
Filmography
movieClara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
1999 · Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]) (archive footage)
movieBrasileiros em Hollywood
1970 · Self (archive footage)
movieLydia
1941 · Sarah MacMillan
moviePride and Prejudice
1940 · Lady Catherine de Bourgh
movieDrums Along the Mohawk
1939 · Mrs. Mc Klennar
movieNurse Edith Cavell
1939 · Countess de Mavon
movieSecond Fiddle
1939 · Aunt Phoebe
movieThe Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
1939 · Maggie Sutton
movieLittle Miss Broadway
1938 · Sarah Wendling
movieParadise for Three
1938 · Mrs. Kunkel
movieRosalie
1937 · Queen of Romanza
movieMy Dear Miss Aldrich
1937 · Mrs. Atherton
movieParnell
1937 · Aunt Ben Wood
movieRomeo and Juliet
1936 · Juliet's Nurse
movieA Tale of Two Cities
1935 · Miss Pross
movieNo More Ladies
1935 · Fanny 'Grandma' Townsend
movieMurder on a Honeymoon
1935 · Hildegarde Withers
movieDavid Copperfield
1935 · Aunt Betsey Trotwood
movieWe're Rich Again
1934 · Maude Stanley
movieMurder on the Blackboard
1934 · Hildegarde Withers
movieThe Last Gentleman
1934 · Augusta Pritchard, Cabot's sister
movieThe Poor Rich
1934 · Harriet Spottiswood
movieAlice in Wonderland
1933 · Red Queen
movieLittle Women
1933 · Aunt March
movieOnly Yesterday
1933 · Leona
movieMeet the Baron
1933 · Dean Primrose
movieAnn Vickers
1933 · Malvina Wormser
movieIt's Great to Be Alive
1933 · Dr. Prodwell
movieThe Great Jasper
1933 · Madame Talma
movieThe Penguin Pool Murder
1932 · Hildegarde Withers
movieThe Conquerors
1932 · Matilda Blake
movieHold 'Em Jail
1932 · Violet Jones
movieLadies of the Jury
1932 · Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane
movieFanny Foley Herself
1931 · Fanny Foley
movieNewly Rich
1931 · Bessie Tate
movieCracked Nuts
1931 · Aunt Minnie Van Varden
movieLaugh and Get Rich
1931 · Sarah Cranston Austin
movieCimarron
1931 · Mrs. Tracy Wyatt
movieHalf Shot at Sunrise
1930 · Mrs. Marshall
movieThe Saturday Night Kid
1929 · Miss Streeter
movieLet's Get Married
1926 · J.W. Smith
movieThe American Venus
1926 · Mrs. Niles
movieLovers in Quarantine
1925 · Amelia Pincent
movieThe Lucky Devil
1925 · Mrs. McDee
movieThe Lady Who Lied
1925
movieManhattan
1924 · Mrs. Trapes
movieIcebound
1924 · Hannah
Restless Wives
movieRestless Wives
1924 · Benson's Secretary
movieThree O'Clock in the Morning
1923 · Hetty
movieWife in Name Only
1923 · Mrs. Dornham