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Edna May Oliver
Acting
Biography
Edna May Oliver (November 9, 1883 – November 9, 1942) was an American stage and film actress. During the 1930s, she was one of the best-known character actresses in American films, often playing tart-tongued spinsters.
She was born Edna May Nutter in Malden, Massachusetts. The daughter of Ida May and Charles Edward Nutter, Edna was a descendant of the 6th American president John Quincy Adams. Miss Oliver took an early interest in the stage, and she would quit school at the age of 14 to pursue her ambitions in the theater.
Despite abandoning traditional schooling, Edna continued to study the…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
as Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]) (archive footage)
Brasileiros em Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
Lydia
as Sarah MacMillan
Pride and Prejudice
as Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Drums Along the Mohawk
as Mrs. Mc Klennar
Second Fiddle
as Aunt Phoebe
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
as Maggie Sutton
Nurse Edith Cavell
as Countess de Mavon
Little Miss Broadway
as Sarah Wendling
Paradise for Three
as Mrs. Kunkel
