Edna May Oliver
Born in Malden, Massachusetts, USA — Nov 08 1883• Died Nov 09 1942
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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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Pride and Prejudice
Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Little Women
Aunt March
Cimarron
Mrs. Tracy Wyatt
Drums Along the Mohawk
Mrs. Mc Klennar
Nurse Edith Cavell
Countess de Mavon
Ann Vickers
Malvina Wormser
Lydia
Sarah MacMillan
Only Yesterday
Leona
Alice in Wonderland
Red Queen
The Poor Rich
Harriet Spottiswood
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Maggie Sutton
Parnell
Aunt Ben Wood
David Copperfield
Aunt Betsey Trotwood
The Conquerors
Matilda Blake
Second Fiddle
Aunt Phoebe
A Tale of Two Cities
Miss Pross
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]) (archive footage)
Brasileiros em Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Rosalie
Queen of Romanza
My Dear Miss Aldrich
Mrs. Atherton
Cracked Nuts
Aunt Minnie Van Varden
Romeo and Juliet
Juliet's Nurse
No More Ladies
Fanny 'Grandma' Townsend
Newly Rich
Bessie Tate
The Lucky Devil
Mrs. McDee
Murder on the Blackboard
Hildegarde Withers
The Penguin Pool Murder
Hildegarde Withers
Murder on a Honeymoon
Hildegarde Withers
Paradise for Three
Mrs. Kunkel
Manhattan
Mrs. Trapes
Little Miss Broadway
Sarah Wendling
Hold 'Em Jail
Violet Jones
Ladies of the Jury
Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane
The Great Jasper
Madame Talma
The Lady Who Lied
Lovers in Quarantine
Amelia Pincent
The Last Gentleman
Augusta Pritchard, Cabot's sister
Let's Get Married
J.W. Smith
We're Rich Again
Maude Stanley
Laugh and Get Rich
Sarah Cranston Austin
The Saturday Night Kid
Miss Streeter
The American Venus
Mrs. Niles
Wife in Name Only
Mrs. Dornham
Meet the Baron
Dean Primrose
Three O'Clock in the Morning
Hetty
It's Great to Be Alive
Dr. Prodwell
Icebound
Hannah
Fanny Foley Herself
Fanny Foley
Half Shot at Sunrise
Mrs. Marshall
Restless Wives
Benson's Secretary