Edna May Oliver

Acting

Edna May Oliver

Born 1883-11-08 Malden, Massachusetts, USA 50 films

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…

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Filmography

50 films
Lydia poster

Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home…

Lydia

★ 6.5 1941

Second Fiddle poster

Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to M…

Second Fiddle

★ 5.1 1939

Rosalie poster

West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an Euro…

Rosalie

★ 6.0 1937