- This woman's composure and customary dignity are distinctly ruffled when she is literally spanked on her bottom by a grizzly 'George 'Gabby' Hayes' in the John Wayne 1944 mystery-western, Tall in the Saddle (1944).
- After her death in 1958, her body was donated to medical science.
- Starred in English silent films between 1913 and 1917. From 1918, worked in the United States, becoming a member of the Theatre Guild. In Hollywood from 1935, usually seen as cranky or narrow-minded aunt or mother.
- Star actress of UK silents who became a Hollywood character player in the sound era, typically portraying stern, autocratic elders.
- Appeared twice with Irene Dunne: "Theodora goes wild" (1936) and "Life with father" (1947).
- Father: John Jenkins Risdon; Mother: Martha Cartwright Harrop.
- Raised her stepson after the death of her first husband--his first wife had died in 1908, which left his son an orphan.
- Initially a student instructor at London's Academy of Dramatic Art.
- Made her Broadway debut in 1912 with "Fanny's First Play."
- Biography in "Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties" by Axel Nissen.
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