Born in Malden, Massachusetts, USA — Nov 08 1883• Died Nov 09 1942

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 traditiona…
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Lady Catherine de Bourgh

Aunt March

Mrs. Tracy Wyatt

Mrs. Mc Klennar

Countess de Mavon

Malvina Wormser

Sarah MacMillan

Leona

Red Queen

Harriet Spottiswood

Maggie Sutton

Aunt Ben Wood

Aunt Betsey Trotwood

Matilda Blake

Aunt Phoebe

Miss Pross

Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]) (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Queen of Romanza

Mrs. Atherton

Aunt Minnie Van Varden

Juliet's Nurse

Fanny 'Grandma' Townsend

Bessie Tate

Mrs. McDee

Hildegarde Withers

Hildegarde Withers

Hildegarde Withers

Mrs. Kunkel

Mrs. Trapes

Sarah Wendling

Violet Jones

Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane

Madame Talma


Amelia Pincent

Augusta Pritchard, Cabot's sister

J.W. Smith

Maude Stanley

Sarah Cranston Austin

Miss Streeter

Mrs. Niles

Mrs. Dornham

Dean Primrose

Hetty

Dr. Prodwell

Hannah

Fanny Foley

Mrs. Marshall
Benson's Secretary