May Robson

May Robson
May Robson

from the film A Star Is Born (1937).
Born Mary Jeanette Robison
19 April 1858(1858-04-19)
Melbourne, Australia
Died 20 October 1942(1942-10-20) (aged 84)
Queens, New York City, United States
Spouse Edward Gore (1880-1883) 3 children
A.H. Brown (1889-1922)

May Robson (19 April 1858 – 20 October 1942) was an actress and playwright. A major stage actress of the late 19th and early 20th century, Robson is best known today for the dozens of 1930s motion pictures she appeared in when she was well into her seventies, usually playing cross old ladies with hearts of gold.

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Biography

Born Mary Jeanette Robison in Melbourne, Australia, she moved to the United States in her late teens. In 1884, after being widowed, she became an actress simply to support her children.[1] Over the next several decades, she flourished on the stage.

She starred in the 1916 silent film A Night Out, an adaptation of the play she co-wrote, The Three Lights.[2] She made several other silent films, then successfully transitioned to talkies. She made 45 films during the 1930s. Among her starring roles was 1931's The She-Wolf, in which she was cast as a miserly millionaire businesswoman based on Hetty Green. She also starred in the final segment of the anthology film If I Had a Million (1932) as a rest home resident who gets a new lease on life when she is given a $1,000,000 check by a dying business tycoon. She played the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland (1933), Countess Vronsky in Anna Karenina (1936), Aunt Elizabeth in Bringing Up Baby (1938), Aunt Polly in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938), and a sharp-tongued Granny in A Star Is Born (1937). Miss Robson was top-billed as late as 1940, starring in Granny Get Your Gun at age 82. Her last film was 1942's Joan of Paris.

In 1933, she was nominated at age 75 for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Lady for a Day, losing to Katharine Hepburn. She was the first Australian-born person to be nominated for an acting Oscar, and for many years she held the record for the oldest performer nominated for an Oscar.

She died at the age of 84 of natural causes, still making movies in her final year, and was buried in Flushing Cemetery in Queens, New York City.

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