
Acting
Ann Shoemaker was an American character actress whose prolific career spanned over five decades across theater, radio, film and television. She appeared in roughly 70 films and TV movies between 1928 and 1976, frequently portraying refined, commanding or maternal figures, most famously playing Sara Delano Roosevelt (the mother of FDR) on both Broadway and in the acclaimed 1960 film adaptation of Sunrise at Campobello.

Mission: Impossible
1966

Revlon Mirror Theatre
1953

The Fortune Cookie
1966

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
1944

The Reckless Moment
1949

My Favorite Wife
1940

House by the River
1950

Strike Up the Band
1940

A Woman's Secret
1949

Ellery Queen, Master Detective
1940

You'll Never Get Rich
1941

Above Suspicion
1943

Mr. Winkle Goes to War
1944

Magic Town
1947

Curtain Call
1940

Stella Dallas
1937

Shall We Dance
1937

Conflict
1945

They Won't Forget
1937

Sitting Pretty
1948

Shockproof
1949

A Dog of Flanders
1935

Babes in Arms
1939

They All Come Out
1939

Alice Adams
1935

Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
1976

The Farmer's Daughter
1940

An Angel from Texas
1940

Chance at Heaven
1933

The Return of the Whistler
1948

Scattergood Pulls the Strings
1941

Cheating Cheaters
1934

Romance of the Redwoods
1939

Sunrise at Campobello
1960

The Life of the Party
1937

Phantoms, Inc.
1945