May Robson

May Robson

1858-04-17 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 70 Credits

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia May Robson (19 April 1858 - 20 October 1942) was an actress and playwright. A major stage actress of the late 19th and early 20th century, Robson is best known today for the dozens of 1930s motion pictures she appeared in when she was well into her seventies, usually playing cross old ladies with hearts of gold.

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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

1983

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.5
Acting

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival fo...

Joan of Paris

Joan of Paris

1942

as Mlle. Rosay

6.5
Acting

An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers get to Paris in spite of the fact that the youngest, Baby, is injured. He must be hid...

Playmates

Playmates

1941

as Grandma Kyser

5.2
Acting

Lulu Monahan, the press agent for John Barrymore, is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. To that end, she and the agent for bandleader Ka...

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1

1941

as Herself

Acting

Hedda Hopper guides us through some of Hollywood's sights; the home of William S. Hart and a Kay Kyser recording-session being among them.

Million Dollar Baby

Million Dollar Baby

1941

as Cornelia Wheelwright

6.0
Acting

A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.

Four Mothers

Four Mothers

1941

as Aunt Etta

6.2
Acting

Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.

Breakdowns of 1940

Breakdowns of 1940

1940

as Self

4.0
Acting

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1940.

The Texas Rangers Ride Again

The Texas Rangers Ride Again

1940

as Cecilia Dangerfield

5.5
Acting

With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the g...

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

1940

as Self

6.5
Acting

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeche...

Irene

Irene

1940

as Granny O'Dare

6.0
Acting

Upholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate. Charm...

Granny Get Your Gun

Granny Get Your Gun

1940

as Minerva Hildegard Hatton

3.5
Acting

An elderly woman turns sheriff to clear her granddaughter of murder charges.

Breakdowns of 1939

Breakdowns of 1939

1939

as Self

7.0
Acting

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939.

Four Wives

Four Wives

1939

as Aunt Etta

5.3
Acting

In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her enga...

That's Right – You're Wrong

That's Right – You're Wrong

1939

as Grandma

5.7
Acting

J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program ...

Nurse Edith Cavell

Nurse Edith Cavell

1939

as Mme. Rappard

6.4
Acting

British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-...

Daughters Courageous

Daughters Courageous

1939

as Penny, the Housekeeper

6.2
Acting

Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her first husband Ji...

The Kid from Kokomo

The Kid from Kokomo

1939

as Margaret 'Maggie' / 'Ma' Manell

6.0
Acting

Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston.Homer is willing to give up his boxing career sea...

Yes, My Darling Daughter

Yes, My Darling Daughter

1939

as 'Granny' Whitman

4.0
Acting

Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year job in Belgium. Ellen and Doug decide to spend thei...

They Made Me a Criminal

They Made Me a Criminal

1939

as Grandma Rafferty

6.1
Acting

A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.

The Texans

The Texans

1938

as Granna

5.6
Acting

After the Civil War, an ex-Confederate soldier faces new battles, including the elements and a carpetbagger intent on destroying him.

Four Daughters

Four Daughters

1938

as Aunt Etta

6.6
Acting

Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man ...

Bringing Up Baby

Bringing Up Baby

1938

as Elizabeth Random

7.5
Acting

David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

1938

as Aunt Polly

6.5
Acting

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witn...

The Perfect Specimen

The Perfect Specimen

1937

as Mrs. Leona Wicks

5.7
Acting

Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wicks is resigned to following his grandmother's wish...

A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born

1937

as Lettie Blodgett

7.1
Acting

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her ido...

Woman in Distress

Woman in Distress

1937

as Phoebe Tuttle

6.0
Acting

Investigating rumors that a priceless Rembrandt, believed destroyed years ago, is actually in the possession of an elderly spinster, a male newspaper ...

Rainbow on the River

Rainbow on the River

1936

as Mrs. Harriet Ainsworth

9.0
Acting

A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.

The Captain's Kid

The Captain's Kid

1936

as Aunt Marcia Prentiss

6.0
Acting

In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk.

Wife vs. Secretary

Wife vs. Secretary

1936

as Mimi Stanhope

6.8
Acting

Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional...

3 Kids and a Queen

3 Kids and a Queen

1935

as Mary Jane 'Queenie' Baxter

6.0
Acting

An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order...

Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina

1935

as Countess Vronsky

6.6
Acting

In 19th century Russia a woman in a respectable marriage to a senior statesman must grapple with her love for a dashing soldier.

Age of Indiscretion

Age of Indiscretion

1935

as Emma Shaw

5.2
Acting

A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert him for a society millionaire, leaving him with t...

Reckless

Reckless

1935

as Mrs. Granny Leslie

5.3
Acting

A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.

Strangers All

Strangers All

1935

as Anna Carter

5.5
Acting

Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.

Vanessa: Her Love Story

Vanessa: Her Love Story

1935

as Judith Paris

6.0
Acting

The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.

Grand Old Girl

Grand Old Girl

1935

as Laura Bayles

6.5
Acting

An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.

Movies on Sundays

1935

as Herself (uncredited)

Acting

A short, introduced in Pennsylvania when the state had laws disallowing the screening of films on Sunday, to sway voters on a referendum to allow such...

Mills of the Gods

Mills of the Gods

1934

as Mary Hastings

Acting

Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean meet...

Lady by Choice

Lady by Choice

1934

as Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson

6.3
Acting

To improve her image, a fan dancer "adopts" an old woman to be her mother.

The Hollywood Gad-About

The Hollywood Gad-About

1934

as Self (uncredited)

5.0
Acting

A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies.

Straight Is the Way

Straight Is the Way

1934

as Mrs. Horowitz

5.5
Acting

Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies.

You Can't Buy Everything

You Can't Buy Everything

1934

as Mrs. Hannah Bell

7.0
Acting

A scorned woman dreams of revenge on the man who betrayed her.

Dinner at Eight

Dinner at Eight

1933

as Mrs. Wendel

6.7
Acting

An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of t...

Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland

1933

as Queen Of Hearts

6.0
Acting

In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.

Dancing Lady

Dancing Lady

1933

as Dolly Todhunter

6.9
Acting

Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get...

The Solitaire Man

The Solitaire Man

1933

as Mrs. Vail

6.5
Acting

An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered when Bascom, a gang member, arrives with a stolen ...

Broadway to Hollywood

Broadway to Hollywood

1933

as Veteran Actress

4.6
Acting

In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son.

Lady for a Day

Lady for a Day

1933

as Apple Annie

7.0
Acting

Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise, in Spain that she is married and a member of New York'...

Beauty for Sale

Beauty for Sale

1933

as Mrs. Merrick

7.0
Acting

A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of ...

One Man's Journey

One Man's Journey

1933

as Sarah

7.1
Acting

Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his so...

Reunion in Vienna

Reunion in Vienna

1933

as Frau Lucher

6.6
Acting

An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now wed to a psychiatrist (Frank Morgan).

The White Sister

The White Sister

1933

as Mother Superior

5.4
Acting

An Italian aristocrat enters a nunnery, thinking her pilot lover has been killed in the war.

Men Must Fight

Men Must Fight

1933

as Maman Seward

5.7
Acting

Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war.

Strange Interlude

Strange Interlude

1932

as Mrs. Evans

5.7
Acting

After Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband's family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the c...

If I Had a Million

If I Had a Million

1932

as Mrs. Mary Walker

6.7
Acting

An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.

Little Orphan Annie

Little Orphan Annie

1932

as Mrs. Stewart

5.8
Acting

Millionaire Daddy Warbucks goes bust in the Great Depression and is forced to abandon his adopted daughter, Annie. While he's out west working on ano...

Red-Headed Woman

Red-Headed Woman

1932

as Aunt Jane

6.7
Acting

Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force so...

Letty Lynton

Letty Lynton

1932

as Mrs. Lynton, Letty's Mothers

6.8
Acting

Socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South America, when she strikes up a shipboard romance with...

The She-Wolf

The She-Wolf

1931

Acting

An unprincipled female financier tries to get even with a rival railroad buyer.

Chicago

Chicago

1927

as Mrs. Morton - Matron

5.7
Acting

Based on a true story, two-timing boozing wife Roxie Hart kills her lover in cold blood after he leaves her, and finagles her way out being indicted. ...

A Harp in Hock

A Harp in Hock

1927

as Mrs. Banks

Acting

A Harp in Hock, also known as The Samaritan, is a lost 1927 American silent melodrama film directed by Renaud Hoffman, produced by DeMille Pictures, a...

The Angel of Broadway

The Angel of Broadway

1927

as Big Bertha

Acting

Babe Scott, a cabaret dancer who is constantly searching for sensational material to shock her customers, conceives of burlesquing a Salvation Army gi...

The King of Kings

The King of Kings

1927

as Mother of Gestas

6.5
Acting

The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywoo...

Rubber Tires

Rubber Tires

1927

as Mrs. Stack

6.0
Acting

When the Stack family suffers some financial setbacks, daughter Mary Ellen suggests they buy a car and relocate to California. Unbeknownst to them, th...

Pals in Paradise

Pals in Paradise

1926

as Esther Lezinsky

6.0
Acting

Bill Harvey discovers a lost mine, rich with gold. Geraldine "Jerry" Howard has the claim to it left her by her father. Bill tells her that the death ...

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1920

as Prostitute at Clinic (uncredited)

6.7
Acting

A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.

A Night Out

A Night Out

1916

as Granmum

Acting

A grandmother has an adventure for the first time in her life when she decides to have a night out.

A Night Out

A Night Out

1916

Theatre Play

A grandmother has an adventure for the first time in her life when she decides to have a night out.

How Molly Malone Made Good

How Molly Malone Made Good

1915

as Herself

5.0
Acting

Molly, an Irish girl just hired by a New York newspaper, is assigned as a test a chain interview of celebrities that must be accomplished within a set...

When Knights Were Bold

When Knights Were Bold

1908

3.2
Acting

Two noblemen fight over a lady.