Character actress Edna May Oliver played many a strong-willed matriarch in her career. Here she is as Mrs. McKlennar in Drums Along the Mohawk (1939).
Edna May Oliver delighted audiences throughout the 1930s and 1940s with her witty portrayals of independent women in literary adaptations, mur read more
July 20, 2013 by smumcounty Edna May Oliver was born Edna May Nutter in 1883 in Malden, Massachusetts, a direct descendant of the sixth President, John Quincy Adams. She left school at the age of fourteen to pursue a career on stage and found her first real success on Broadway in 1917 in Jerome Ker read more
July 20, 2013 by smumcounty Edna May Oliver was born Edna May Nutter in 1883 in Malden, Massachusetts, a direct descendant of the sixth President, John Quincy Adams. She left school at the age of fourteen to pursue a career on stage and found her first real success on Broadway in 1917 in Jerome Ker read more
Edna May Oliver, was a descendant of the sixth American president, John Quincy Adams. She left school at age fourteen in order to perform on Broadway in Jerome Kern's musical comedy, Oh, Boy! (1917).
Her film debut was in the film, Wife in Name Only(1923). Oliver first gained notice for her perfor read more
