May Whitty
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.
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Known for
The Lady Vanishes
Miss Froy
Gaslight
Bessie Thwaites
Suspicion
Mrs. McLaidlaw
My Name Is Julia Ross
Mrs. Hughes
Mrs. Miniver
Lady Beldon
Lassie Come Home
Dally
Madame Curie
Madame Eugene Curie
Stage Door Canteen
Dame May Whitty
Devotion
Lady Thornton
The White Cliffs of Dover
Nanny
Crash Dive
Grandmother
Raffles
Lady Melrose
The Return of October
Aunt Martha Grant
I Met My Love Again
Aunt William
Forever and a Day
Lucy Trimble
The Constant Nymph
Lady Constance Longborough
Night Must Fall
Mrs. Bramson
Flesh and Fantasy
Pamela Hardwick (segment 2)
Conquest
Laetitia Bonaparte
Slightly Dangerous
Baba
If Winter Comes
Mrs. Perch
Green Dolphin Street
Mother Superior
One Night In Lisbon
Florence
This Time for Keeps
Grandmother Cambaretti
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Keep Your Seats, Please
Aunt Georgina Withers
Thunder Birds
Lady Jane Stackhouse
The Thirteenth Chair
Mme. Rosalie La Grange
Return to Yesterday
Mrs Emily Truscott
The Sign of the Ram
Clara Brastock
A Bill of Divorcement
Aunt Hester Fairfield
The Little Minister
Nanny Webster