Dame May Whitty Net Worth is$200,000 Dame May Whitty Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Born Mary Whitty on June 19, 1865 to a Liverpool newspaper editor and his wife, she became known as May Whitty to the world. She first stepped on the London stage in 1882. She worked as an understudy at the St. James Theatre, and then, began playing leading roles when she joined a traveling stock company. After nearly 25 years as one of the leading...
Date Of Birth June 19, 1865 Place Of Birth Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK Profession Actress Spouse Ben Webster (actor) Star Sign Gemini
# Quote 1 So long as I can do my bit, I'll keep right on doing it. 2 I've got everything Betty Grable has - only I've had it longer.
# Fact 1 During the 1940s she starred in 3 films where the leading lady won a Best Actress Oscar: Joan Fontaine for Suspicion (1941), Greer Garson for Mrs. Miniver (1942), and Ingrid Bergman for Gaslight (1944). 2 Short biography in "Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties" by Axel Nissen. 3 Sister-in-law of Annie Webster and A.E. George . 4 First toured on stage in the United States in 1895 with Sir Henry Irving. 5 Her father, Alfred Whitty, was a British journalist/publisher. 6 Mother of actress/director Margaret Webster , who died in 1972. 7 She was the first actress to be invested as a DBE (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire), in the 1918 King's New Year Honours List for her services to hospital work during World War I.
Actress Title Year Status Character The Return of October 1948 Aunt Martha Grant The Sign of the Ram 1948 Clara Brastock If Winter Comes 1947 Mrs. Perch This Time for Keeps 1947 Grandmother Cambaretti Green Dolphin Street 1947 Mother Superior Devotion 1946 Lady Thornton My Name Is Julia Ross 1945 Mrs. Hughes The White Cliffs of Dover 1944 Nanny Gaslight 1944 Miss Thwaites Madame Curie 1943 Madame Eugene Curie Lassie Come Home 1943 Dally Stage Door Canteen 1943 May Whitty The Constant Nymph 1943 Lady Constance Longborough Crash Dive 1943 Grandmother Slightly Dangerous 1943 Baba Flesh and Fantasy 1943 Lady Pamela Hardwick (Episode 2) Forever and a Day 1943 Mrs. Lucy Trimble Thunder Birds: Soldiers of the Air 1942 Lady Jane Stackhouse Mrs. Miniver 1942 Lady Beldon Suspicion 1941 Mrs. McLaidlaw One Night in Lisbon 1941 Florence A Bill of Divorcement 1940 Aunt Hester Fairfield Return to Yesterday 1940 Mrs. Truscott Raffles 1939 Lady Melrose Rake's Progress 1939 TV Movie Mrs. Mead, Wilkes's mother-in-law The Royal Family of Broadway 1939 TV Movie Fanny Cavendish Mary Rose 1939 TV Movie Mrs. Morland The Lady Vanishes 1938 Miss Froy Parnell 1938 TV Movie Aunt Caroline I Met My Love Again 1938 Aunt William Conquest 1937 Laetitia Bonaparte The Thirteenth Chair 1937 Mme. Rosalie La Grange Night Must Fall 1937 Mrs. Bramson Keep Your Seats, Please! 1936 Aunt Georgina Withers (uncredited) Colonel Newcombe, the Perfect Gentleman 1920 Mrs. Mackenzie The Little Minister 1915 Nanny Webster Enoch Arden 1914 Miriam Lane (as May Whitty)
Self Title Year Status Character Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 6 1942 Documentary short Herself
Nominated Awards Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie 1943 Oscar Academy Awards, USA Best Actress in a Supporting Role Mrs. Miniver (1942) 1938 Oscar Academy Awards, USA Best Actress in a Supporting Role Night Must Fall (1937)
Known for movies The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Suspicion (1941)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Gaslight (1944)
$200,000
