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American actress Ann Shoemaker was 19 years old when she made her Broadway bow in +Nobody's Widow. Shoemaker's subsequent stage credits ranged from the Eugene O'Neill efforts +The Great God Brown and +Ah, Wilderness! to the mid-'60s musical comedy... MORE

American actress Ann Shoemaker was 19 years old when she made her Broadway bow in +Nobody's Widow. Shoemaker's subsequent stage credits ranged from the Eugene O'Neill efforts +The Great God Brown and +Ah, Wilderness! to the mid-'60s musical comedy +Half a Sixpence. In films from 1931, she was ideally cast in dowager roles, notably Sara Roosevelt, FDR's mother, in Sunrise at Campobello (1960). She made her last appearance as a cynical nun in Billy Wilder's The Fortune Cookie (1966). Ann Shoemaker was the widow of British actor Henry Stephenson. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi LESS