May Robson | |
|---|---|
.png) Trailer for Broadway to Hollywood (1933) | |
| Born | Mary Jeanette Robison 19 April 1858 Moama, New South Wales, Australia |
| Died | 20 October 1942 (aged 84) Beverly Hills, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Flushing Cemetery, Queens, New York City |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1883–1942 |
| Spouses | Charles L. Gore
(m. 1875; died 1883)Augustus H. Brown
(m. 1889; died 1920) |
| Children | 3 |
Mary Jeanette Robison (19 April 1858 – 20 October 1942), known professionally as May Robson, was an Australian-born American-based actress whose career spanned 58 years, starting in 1883 when she was 25. A major stage actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, she is remembered for the dozens of films she appeared in during the 1930s, when she was in her 70s.
Robson was the earliest-born person, and the first Australian to be nominated for an Academy Award (for her leading role in Lady for a Day in 1933).[1][2]
- ^ Nissen, Axel (2007). Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. p. 184. ISBN 978-0-7864-2746-8.
- ^ Phillipa Hawker (February 21, 2009). "O stands for Oscar and also for Oz". The Age. Retrieved November 13, 2016.