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Dame May Whitty

Highest Rated: 100% Conquest (1937)

Lowest Rated: 40% One Night in Lisbon (1941)

Birthday: Jun 19, 1865

Birthplace: Liverpool, England, UK

West End actress Dame May Whitty (the first theatre and film actress to ever achieve damehood) officially entered Hollywood with her role as Mrs. Bramson in the 1937 film "Night Must Fall," for which she nabbed an Academy Award nomination. One of Whitty's best-remembered roles came with her turn as the mysterious disappearing governess Miss Froy in the Hitchcock thriller "The Lady Vanishes." She performed consistently throughout the '30s and '40s with some of the biggest names of the era including Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine, and earned her second Oscar nomination for portraying Lady Beldon in the 1942 drama "Mrs. Miniver."

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100% 57% Conquest
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98% 88% The Lady Vanishes
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97% 77% Suspicion
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94% 77% Lassie Come Home
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93% 84% Mrs. Miniver
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92% 65% My Name Is Julia Ross
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89% 90% Gaslight
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88% 68% Madame Curie
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80% 57% The White Cliffs of Dover
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40% One Night in Lisbon
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Dame May Whitty

Dame May Whitty MADAME CURIE, Dame May Whitty, Henry Travers, on-set, 1943 IF WINTER COMES, from left: Dame May Whitty, Ian Wolfe, Walter Pidgeon, Janet Leigh, 1947 I MET MY LOVE AGAIN, Dame May Whitty, Henry Fonda, 1938 MRS. MINIVER, Henry Travers, Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, 1942 THE LADY VANISHES, Dame May Whitty, Margaret Lockwood, Naunton Wayne, Catherine Lacey, Michael Redgrave, 1938 THE LADY VANISHES, Naughton Wayne, Margaret Lockwood, Dame May Whitty, Michael Redgrave, Basil Radford, Cecil Parker, 1938 MADAME CURIE, Henry Travers, Dame May Whitty, 1943 THE LADY VANISHES, front from left: Googie Withers, Margaret Lockwood, Dame May Whitty, Sally Stewart, 1938 MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS, Dame May Whitty, George Macready, 1945 View more photos

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If Winter Comes 56% 1948 Mrs. Perch Actor The Return of October 1948 Aunt Martha Grant Actor The Sign of the Ram 30% 1948 Clara Brastock Actor Green Dolphin Street 74% 1947 Mother Superior Actor This Time for Keeps 23% 1947 Grandmother Cambaretti Actor Devotion 56% 1946 Lady Thornton Actor My Name Is Julia Ross 92% 65% 1945 Mrs. Hughes Actor The White Cliffs of Dover 80% 57% 1944 Nanny Actor Gaslight 89% 90% 1944 Miss Thwaites Actor The Constant Nymph 67% 1943 Lady Constance Longborough Actor Slightly Dangerous 75% 1943 Baba Actor Madame Curie 88% 68% 1943 Madame Eugene Curie Actor Lassie Come Home 94% 77% 1943 Dally Actor Crash Dive 51% 1943 Grandmother Actor Mrs. Miniver 93% 84% 1942 Lady Beldon Actor Suspicion 97% 77% 1941 Mrs. Martha McLaidlaw Actor One Night in Lisbon 40% 1941 Florence Actor Raffles 56% 1940 Lady Melrose Actor Return to Yesterday 1940 Mrs. Emily Truscott Actor A Bill of Divorcement 1940 Aunt Hester Fairfield Actor I Met My Love Again 1938 Actor The Lady Vanishes 98% 88% 1938 Miss Froy, Governess Actor Conquest 100% 57% 1937 Dame May Whitty Actor Night Must Fall 77% 1937 Mrs. Bramson Actor The Thirteenth Chair 1937 Mme. Rosalie La Grange Actor
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