Emily Fitzroy (24 May 1860 – 3 March 1954) was an English theatre and film actress who eventually became an American citizen. She was at one time a leading lady in London for Sir Charles Wyndham. She made her film debut in 1915. Her debut in sound films came in ''

Show Boat ''Show Boat'' is a musical theatre, musical with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based on Edna Ferber's best-selling 1926 Show Boat (novel), novel of the same name. The musical follows the lives of the pe ...

'' (1929). She retired in 1944. Her last film was ''

The White Cliffs of Dover The White Cliffs of Dover is the region of English coastline facing the Strait of Dover and France. The cliff face, which reaches a height of , owes its striking appearance to its composition of chalk accented by streaks of black flint, deposi ...

'' (1944). Her Broadway credits include ''What the Public Wants'' (1922), ''I.O.U.'' (1918), ''Rich Man, Poor Man'' (1916), ''Lady Patricia'' (1912), and ''Just to Get Married'' (1912).

Selected filmography

* ''Sins of Men'' (1916) - Minor Role * ''

East Lynne ''East Lynne'' is an English sensation novel of 1861 by Ellen Wood, writing as Mrs Henry Wood. A Victorian best-seller, it is remembered chiefly for its elaborate and implausible plot, centring on infidelity and double identities. There have ...

'' (1916) - Cornelia * ''The Return of Eve'' (1916) - Mrs. Tupper-Bellamy * '' A Broadway Saint'' (1919) - Martha Galt * '' The Climbers'' (1919) - Mrs. Hunter * '' Deadline at Eleven'' (1920) - Mrs. Martha Stevens * '' The Man Who Lost Himself'' (1920) - Richester's Aunt * '' Way Down East'' (1920) - Maria Poole - Landlady * ''

The Frisky Mrs. Johnson ''The Frisky Mrs. Johnson'' is a 1920 silent film comedy starring Billie Burke. It was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. It is based on a 1903 Broadway stage play by Clyde Fitch. On the stage Burke's ...

'' (1920) - Mrs. Chardley * ''

The New York Idea Langdon Elwyn Mitchell (February 17, 1862 – October 21, 1935) was an American playwright popular on Broadway in the early twentieth century. He was the son of a noted writer and neurologist, S. Weir Mitchell (inventor of the "rest cure"), an ...

'' (1920) - Grace Phillimore * ''

Out of the Chorus ''Out of the Chorus'' is a lost 1921 American silent drama film starring Alice Brady and directed by Herbert Blache. It was produced and distributed by Paramount offshoot Realart Pictures.''The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921- ...

'' (1921) - Mrs. Van Beekman * ''

Straight Is the Way ''Straight Is the Way'' is a 1934 American drama film directed by Paul Sloane, written by Bernard Schubert, and starring Franchot Tone, May Robson, Karen Morley, Gladys George, Nat Pendleton and Jack La Rue. It is based upon the stage play by Da ...

'' (1921) - Mrs. Crabtree * '' Wife Against Wife'' (1921) - Mrs. Dole *''

Jane Eyre ''Jane Eyre'' ( ; originally published as ''Jane Eyre: An Autobiography'') is a novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published under her pen name "Currer Bell" on 19 October 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. The firs ...

'' (1921) - Grace Poole (a servant) * ''The Splendid Lie'' (1922) - Mrs. Wolcott Delafield * '' Find the Woman'' (1922) - Mrs. Napoli * '' Fascination'' (1922) - The Marquesa de Lisa (her aunt) * '' No Trespassing'' (1922) - Mrs. James Colton * '' Fury'' (1923) - Matilda Brent * '' Driven'' (1923) - Mrs. Tolliver * '' The Purple Highway'' (1923) - Mrs. Carney * ''

Strangers of the Night ''Strangers of the Night'' is a 1923 American silent comedy film directed by Fred Niblo. It was produced by Louis B. Mayer and released through Metro Pictures. The film was adapted by C. Gardner Sullivan from the 1921 stage play, '' Captain Ap ...

'' (1923) - Mrs. Pengard * '' Jealous Husbands'' (1923) - Amaryllis * ''

The Whispered Name ''The Whispered Name'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by King Baggot and starring Ruth Clifford, Charles Clary, and W.E. Lawrence. It was based on a Broadway play that had previously been made into the 1917 film ''The Co-Responden ...

'' (1924) - Amanda Stone * '' Secrets'' (1924) - Mrs. Marlowe * ''A Girl of the Limberlost'' (1924) - Kate Comstock * '' Untamed Youth'' (1924) - Emily Ardis * '' The Man Who Came Back'' (1924) - Aunt Isabel * '' The Red Lily'' (1924) - Mama Bouchard * '' His Hour'' (1924) - Princess Ardacheff * '' Her Night of Romance'' (1924) - Nurse (scenes deleted) * ''

Love's Wilderness ''Love's Wilderness'' is a 1924 American drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and written by Helen Klumph and Eve Unsell. The film stars Corinne Griffith, Holmes Herbert, Ian Keith, Maurice de Canonge, Emily Fitzroy, and Anne Schaefer. ...

'' (1924) - Matilda Heath * ''The Hooded Falcon'' (1924) * '' The Spaniard'' (1925) - Maria * ''

The Golden Bed ''The Golden Bed'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It is based on the novel ''Tomorrow's Bread'' by Wallace Irwin. Jeanie MacPherson wrote the screenplay. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, ...

'' (1925) - Minor Role (uncredited) * '' Learning to Love'' (1925) - Aunt Virginia * '' The Lady'' (1925) - Madame Blanche * '' Outwitted'' (1925) - Meg * '' The Denial'' (1925) - Rena - Mother in Flashback * '' Zander the Great'' (1925) - The Matron * '' Are Parents People?'' (1925) - Margaret * '' Never the Twain Shall Meet'' (1925) - Mrs. Pippy * '' Thunder Mountain'' (1925) - Ma MacBirney * '' The Winding Stair'' (1925) - Madame Muller * '' Bobbed Hair'' (1925) - Aunt Celimena Moore * '' Lazybones'' (1925) - Mrs. Fanning * '' The Red Kimono'' (1925) - The Housekeeper * '' What Happened to Jones'' (1926) - Mrs. Goodly * '' The Bat'' (1926) - Miss Cornelia Van Gorder * '' High Steppers'' (1926) - Mrs. Iffield * '' Hard Boiled'' (1926) - Abigail Gregg * ''

No Babies Wanted ''No Babies Wanted'' is a 1928 silent film domestic drama directed by Jack Harvey, released under the alternative title ''The Baby Mother''. It starred child actress Priscilla Moran (b. 1917) and seasoned silent veteran William V. Mong as her gr ...

'' (1926) - Landlady, 'Old Ironsides' * ''

Don Juan Don Juan (), also known as Don Giovanni ( Italian), is a legendary, fictional Spanish libertine who devotes his life to seducing women. Famous versions of the story include a 17th-century play, ''El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra'' ...

'' (1926) - The Dowager (uncredited) * '' Marriage License?'' (1926) - Lady Heriot * '' Bardelys the Magnificent'' (1926) - Vicomtesse de Lavedan * '' The Cheerful Fraud'' (1926) - Mrs. Bytheway * '' One Increasing Purpose'' (1927) - Mrs. Andiron * '' The Sea Tiger'' (1927) - Mrs. Enos * '' Orchids and Ermine'' (1927) - Mrs. Blom * ''

Married Alive ''Married Alive'' is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Emmett J. Flynn and written by Gertrude Orr. The film stars Margaret Livingston, Matt Moore, Claire Adams, Gertrude Claire, Marcella Daly and Henry Sedley. The film was relea ...

'' (1927) - Mrs. Maggs Duxbury * '' Mockery'' (1927) - Mrs. Gaidaroff * '' Foreign Devils'' (1927) - Mrs. Conger * ''

Love Me and the World Is Mine ''Love Me and the World Is Mine'' is a 1928 American silent romantic film directed by Ewald André Dupont (E.A. Dupont) and released by Universal Pictures. Plot Hannerl (Philbin) is a young woman growing up in Old Vienna. She falls in love with ...

'' (1927) - The Porter's Wife * '' Once and Forever'' (1927) - Katherine * ''

Love Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest Interpersonal relationship, interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. An example of this range of ...

'' (1927) - Grand Duchess * '' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'' (1928) - Lady Beekman * ''

The Trail of '98 ''The Trail of '98'' is a 1928 American silent action-adventure/drama film featuring Harry Carey and Dolores del Río about the Klondike Gold Rush. The film was originally released by MGM in a short-lived widescreen process called “Fantom Sc ...

'' (1928) - Mrs. Bulkey * ''

The Case of Lena Smith ''The Case of Lena Smith'' is a 1929 American silent drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring Esther Ralston and James Hall, and released by Paramount Pictures. ''The Case of Lena Smith'' is ranked by film critics as among the � ...

'' (1929) - Frau Hofrat * ''

'' (1929) - Parthenia Ann Hawks * ''

The Bridge of San Luis Rey ''The Bridge of San Luis Rey'' is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel. It was first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, and was the best-selling work of fiction that year. Premise ''The B ...

'' (1929) - Marquesa * '' The Man from Blankley's'' (1930) - Mrs. Tidmarsh * '' Dumbbells in Ermine'' (1930) - Gossiper (uncredited) * ''

The Flirting Widow ''The Flirting Widow'' is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Dorothy Mackaill, Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams and Claude Gillingwater. It was produced and released by First National Pictures, a subsid ...

'' (1930) - Aunt Ida * '' Song o' My Heart'' (1930) - Aunt Elizabeth * ''

She's My Weakness ''She's My Weakness'' is a 1930 American Pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Melville W. Brown (assisted by Dewey Starkey) and starring Sue Carol and Arthur Lake. The screenplay was written by J. Walter Ruben, based on the Broadway play ...

'' (1930) - Mrs. Oberlander * ''

New Moon In astronomy, the new moon is the first lunar phase, when the Moon and Sun have the same ecliptic longitude. At this phase, the lunar disk is not visible to the naked eye, except when it is silhouetted against the Sun during a solar eclip ...

'' (1930) - Countess Anastasia Strogoff * '' Unfaithful'' (1931) - Auntie Janie * '' It's a Wise Child'' (1931) - Jane Appleby * '' Misbehaving Ladies'' (1931) - Meta Oliver * '' Detective Lloyd'' (1932, Serial) - The Manor Ghost * '' Aren't We All?'' (1932) - Angela * ''

Lucky Ladies ''Lucky Ladies'' is a 1932 British comedy film directed by John Rawlins and starring Sydney Fairbrother, Emily Fitzroy and Tracy Holmes. Plot summary Some sisters inherit a large sum of money. Cast * Sydney Fairbrother as Angle Tuckett * ...

'' (1932) - Cleo Honeycutt * '' High Society'' (1932) - Mrs. Strangeways * '' Timbuctoo'' (1933) - Aunt Augusta * ''

Don Quixote is a Spanish epic novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Originally published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, its full title is ''The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha'' or, in Spanish, (changing in Part 2 to ). A founding work of Wester ...

'' (1933) - Sancho Panza's wife * '' Her Imaginary Lover'' (1933) - Aunt Lydia Raleigh * ''

Dick Turpin Richard Turpin (bapt. 21 September 1705 – 7 April 1739) was an English highwayman whose exploits were romanticised following his execution in York for horse theft. Turpin may have followed his father's trade as a butcher ear ...

'' (1934) - Minor Role (uncredited) * '' The Man with Two Faces'' (1934) - Hattie * '' Two Heads on a Pillow'' (1934) - Mrs. Van Suydam * '' The Captain Hates the Sea'' (1934) - Mrs. Victoria Griswold * '' China Seas'' (1935) - Mrs. Higgins (uncredited) * ''

She Couldn't Take It ''She Couldn't Take It'' is a 1935 screwball comedy film made at Columbia Pictures, directed by Tay Garnett, written by C. Graham Baker, Gene Towne and Oliver H.P. Garrett, and starring George Raft and Joan Bennett. It was one of the few comedie ...

'' (1935) - Party Guest (uncredited) * '' Border Flight'' (1936) - Old Maid (uncredited) * '' The Bold Caballero'' (1936) - Lady Isabella's Chaperone * '' Nothing Sacred'' (1937) - Guest at Banquet (uncredited) * ''

The Frontiersmen ''The Frontiersmen'' (sometimes erroneously labeled as ''The Frontiersman'') is a 1938 American Western film directed by Lesley Selander and written by Norman Houston and Harrison Jacobs. The film stars William Boyd, George "Gabby" Hayes, Rus ...

'' (1938) - School Teacher aka Snooksie * '' Vigil in the Night'' (1940) - Sister Gilson * '' The Flame of New Orleans'' (1941) - Cousin * '' Two-Faced Woman'' (1941) - Rhumba Dancer (uncredited) * '' Forever and a Day'' (1943) - Ms. Fulcher * ''

'' (1944) - Spinster in Boardinghouse (uncredited) (final film role)

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