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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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Highest rated movies

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% 67% 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

Filmography

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No Score Yet 56% If Winter Comes Mrs. Perch (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Return of October Aunt Martha Grant (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet 25% The Sign of the Ram Clara Brastock (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet 74% Green Dolphin Street Mother Superior (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet 23% This Time for Keeps Grandmother Cambaretti (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet 56% Devotion Lady Thornton (Character) - 1946
92% 67% My Name Is Julia Ross Mrs. Hughes (Character) - 1945
80% 57% The White Cliffs of Dover Nanny (Character) - 1944
89% 90% Gaslight Miss Thwaites (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet 67% The Constant Nymph Lady Constance Longborough (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet 75% Slightly Dangerous Baba (Character) - 1943
88% 68% Madame Curie Madame Eugene Curie (Character) - 1943
94% 77% Lassie Come Home Dally (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet 51% Crash Dive Grandmother (Character) - 1943
93% 84% Mrs. Miniver Lady Beldon (Character) - 1942
97% 77% Suspicion Mrs. Martha McLaidlaw (Character) - 1941
40% No Score Yet One Night in Lisbon Florence (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet 56% Raffles Lady Melrose (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Bill of Divorcement Aunt Hester Fairfield (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet Return to Yesterday Mrs. Emily Truscott (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet I Met My Love Again Unknown (Character) - 1938
98% 88% The Lady Vanishes Miss Froy, Governess (Character) - 1938
100% 57% Conquest Dame May Whitty (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet 77% Night Must Fall Mrs. Bramson (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Thirteenth Chair Mme. Rosalie La Grange (Character) - 1937