{{Short description|American actress (1891–1978)}} {{Use American English|date=February 2022}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2022}} {{More citations needed|date=March 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Ann Shoemaker | image = Ann Shoemaker in Sunrise at Campobello.JPG | alt = | caption = Shoemaker in the trailer for ''Sunrise at Campobello'' (1960) | birth_name = Anne Dorothea Shoemaker | birth_date = {{Birth date|1891|01|10|mf=yes}} | birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1978|09|18|1891|01|10|mf=yes}} | death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | resting_place = Kensico Cemetery<br/>Valhalla, New York | resting_place_coordinates = {{coord|41.0779|N|73.7865|W}} | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1928–1976 | spouse = {{marriage|Henry Stephenson|1922|1956|end=died}} | children = Anne Hall }}
'''Ann Shoemaker''' (born '''Anne Dorothea Shoemaker''';<ref>{{Cite book|last=Shoemaker|first=Benjamin H.|title=Shoemaker Pioneers: The Early Genealogy and History of the Colonial Shoemaker Families Who Came to America Before the Revolution|url=https://archive.org/details/shoemakerpioneer00shoe|url-access=registration|year=1975|pages=[https://archive.org/details/shoemakerpioneer00shoe/page/91 91]}}</ref> January 10, 1891 – September 18, 1978) was an American actress who appeared in 70 films and TV movies between 1928 and 1976. She portrayed Sara Roosevelt, mother of Franklin D. Roosevelt, in both the stage and film versions of ''Sunrise at Campobello''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Actress Joins Cast|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12796750/ann_shoemaker/|work=Simpson's Leader-Times|agency=United Press International|date=June 15, 1960|location=Pennsylvania, Kittanning|page=19|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = August 1, 2017}} {{Open access}}</ref>
She had two marriages. The first was with the actor Louis Leon Hall, by whom she had a daughter, Anne, who became a song lyricist. After divorcing, she was later married to the actor Henry Stephenson from 1922 until his death in 1956.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fisher |first1=James |last2=Londré |first2=Felicia Hardison |title=Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Modernism |date=2017 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=9781538107867 |page=628 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pro7DwAAQBAJ&q=%22Ann+Shoemaker%22+actress&pg=PA628 |access-date=21 March 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
Shoemaker's Broadway credits include ''Half a Sixpence'' (1965), ''Sunrise at Campobello'' (1958), ''The Living Room'' (1954), ''Twilight Walk'' (1951), ''Dream Girl'' (1951), ''Woman Bites Dog'' (1946), ''The Rich Full Life'' (1945), ''Proof Thro' the Night'' (1942), ''Ah, Wilderness!'' (1941), ''Black Sheep'' (1932), ''The Silent Witness'' (1931), ''The Novice and the Duke'' (1929), ''Button, Button'' (1919), ''To-Night at 12'' (1928), ''Speak Easy'' (1927), ''We All Do'' (1927), ''The Noose'' (1926), and ''The Great God Brown'' (1926).<ref>{{cite web |title=Ann Shoemaker |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/ann-shoemaker-68745 |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=21 March 2019 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190321210324/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/ann-shoemaker-68745 |archive-date=21 March 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Partial filmography== {{Div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''Chance at Heaven'' (1933) - Mrs. Harris * ''Cross Country Cruise'' (1934) - Mrs. O'Shaughnessy - Baby's Mother (uncredited) * ''Dr. Monica'' (1934) - Mrs. Hazlitt * ''Cheating Cheaters'' (1934) - Mrs. Grace Palmer * ''The Woman in Red'' (1935) - Cora Furness (uncredited) * ''A Dog of Flanders'' (1935) - Frau Ilse Cogez * ''Stranded'' (1935) - Mrs. Tuthill * ''Alice Adams'' (1935) - Mrs. Adams * ''Sins of Man'' (1936) - Anna Engel * ''Shall We Dance'' (1937) - Matron * ''They Won't Forget'' (1937) - Mrs. Mountford * ''Stella Dallas'' (1937) - Miss Margaret Phillibrown * ''The Life of the Party'' (1937) - Countess Martos * ''Romance of the Redwoods'' (1939) - Mother Manning * ''Almost a Gentleman'' (1939) - Mrs. Thompson (uncredited) * ''They All Come Out'' (1939) - Dr. Ellen Hollis * ''Babes in Arms'' (1939) - Mrs. Barton * ''The Farmer's Daughter'' (1940) - Mrs. Bingham * ''Seventeen'' (1940) - Mary Baxter * ''The Marines Fly High'' (1940) - Mrs. Hill * ''Curtain Call'' (1940) - Mrs. Middleton * ''An Angel from Texas'' (1940) - Addie Lou Coleman * ''My Favorite Wife'' (1940) - Ma - Nick's Mother * ''Girl from Avenue A'' (1940) - Mrs. Maddox * ''Strike Up the Band'' (1940) - Mrs. Connors * ''Ellery Queen, Master Detective'' (1940) - Lydia Braun * ''Scattergood Pulls the Strings'' (1941) - Mrs. Downs * ''You'll Never Get Rich'' (1941) - Mrs. Barton * ''Above Suspicion'' (1943) - Aunt Ellen * ''What a Woman'' (1943) - Senator's Wife (uncredited) * ''Man from Frisco'' (1944) - Martha Kennedy * ''Mr. Winkle Goes to War'' (1944) - Martha Pettigrew, Jack's Mother (uncredited) * ''Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo'' (1944) - Mrs. Parker * ''What a Blonde'' (1945) - Mrs. DaFoe * ''Conflict'' (1945) - Nora Grant * ''Magic Town'' (1947) - Ma Peterman * ''Sitting Pretty'' (1948) - Mrs. Ashcroft (uncredited) * ''The Return of the Whistler'' (1948) - Mrs. Barkley * ''Wallflower'' (1948) - Mrs. Dixie James * ''A Woman's Secret'' (1949) - Mrs. Matthews * ''Shockproof'' (1949) - Dr. Daniels (uncredited) * ''The Reckless Moment'' (1949) - Mrs. Catherine Feller (uncredited) * ''House by the River'' (1950) - Mrs. Ambrose * ''Sunrise at Campobello'' (1960) - Sara Delano Roosevelt * ''The Fortune Cookie'' (1966) - Sister Veronica {{div col end}}
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