May Whitty

Biography

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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Known For

Gaslight

Suspicion

The Lady Vanishes

Lassie Come Home

Mrs. Miniver

Madame Curie

Crash Dive

Stage Door Canteen

All Movies (32)

• The Return of October1948 · as Aunt Martha Grant
• The Sign of the Ram1948 · as Clara Brastock
• If Winter Comes1947 · as Mrs. Perch
• This Time for Keeps1947 · as Grandmother Cambaretti
• Green Dolphin Street1947 · as Mother Superior
• Devotion1946 · as Lady Thornton
• My Name Is Julia Ross1945 · as Mrs. Hughes
• The White Cliffs of Dover1944 · as Nanny
• Gaslight1944 · as Miss Thwaites
• Madame Curie1943 · as Madame Eugene Curie
• Lassie Come Home1943 · as Dally
• Flesh and Fantasy1943 · as Pamela Hardwick (segment 2)
• Stage Door Canteen1943 · as Dame May Whitty
• The Constant Nymph1943 · as Lady Constance Longborough
• Crash Dive1943 · as Grandmother
• Slightly Dangerous1943 · as Baba
• Forever and a Day1943 · as Lucy Trimble
• Thunder Birds1942 · as Lady Jane Stackhouse
• Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 61942
• Mrs. Miniver1942 · as Lady Beldon
• Suspicion1941 · as Mrs. McLaidlaw
• One Night In Lisbon1941 · as Florence
• A Bill of Divorcement1940 · as Aunt Hester Fairfield
• Return to Yesterday1940 · as Mrs Emily Truscott
• Raffles1939 · as Lady Melrose
• The Lady Vanishes1938 · as Miss Froy
• I Met My Love Again1938 · as Aunt William
• Conquest1937 · as Laetitia Bonaparte
• The Thirteenth Chair1937 · as Mrs O'Neill aka Madame Rosalie la Grange
• Night Must Fall1937 · as Mrs. Bramson
• Keep Your Seats, Please1936 · as Aunt Georgina Withers
• The Little Minister1915 · as Nanny Webster