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George Macready and May Whitty in My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)

Queenie Leonard, Evan Thomas, and May Whitty in My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)

May Whitty in My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)

Nina Foch, George Macready, and May Whitty in My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)

George Macready, Anita Sharp-Bolster, and May Whitty in My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)

Walter Brennan, Lana Turner, and May Whitty in Slightly Dangerous (1943)

Walter Brennan and May Whitty in Slightly Dangerous (1943)

Greer Garson, Richard Ney, Walter Pidgeon, Christopher Severn, and May Whitty in Mrs. Miniver (1942)

Margaret Lockwood, Cecil Parker, Basil Radford, Michael Redgrave, Naunton Wayne, and May Whitty in The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Edward G. Robinson, Anna Lee, Doris Lloyd, Thomas Mitchell, Constance Purdy, and May Whitty in Flesh and Fantasy (1943)

Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, May Whitty, and Ernest Blyth in The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, and May Whitty in The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Catherine Lacey, Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Naunton Wayne, and May Whitty in The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Margaret Lockwood, Cecil Parker, Basil Radford, Michael Redgrave, Linden Travers, Naunton Wayne, and May Whitty in The Lady Vanishes (1938)

David Niven and May Whitty in Raffles (1939)

Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, and May Whitty in Night Must Fall (1937)

Robert Montgomery and May Whitty in Night Must Fall (1937)

Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Benchley, Robert Cummings, Betty Field, Anna Lee, and May Whitty in Flesh and Fantasy (1943)

Madge Evans, Ralph Forbes, Elissa Landi, and May Whitty in The Thirteenth Chair (1937)

Nina Foch, George Macready, Roland Varno, and May Whitty in My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)

Paul Lukas, Margaret Lockwood, Basil Radford, Michael Redgrave, Naunton Wayne, and May Whitty in The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, and May Whitty in The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Margaret Lockwood and May Whitty in The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Paul Lukas, Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, and May Whitty in The Lady Vanishes (1938)

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 onto the London stage in 1882 at which 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 Britain's leading stage actresses, she appeared in her first film, Enoch Arden (1914), in Great Britain. She did not care much for the experience and appeared in only a few silent films afterward.

In 1918, based on her service to the arts and for performing for the troops during World War I, she was named as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by King George V.

After a string of 1930s Broadway successes, she went to Hollywood, following the example of many of her British contemporaries. She found herself usually cast in highborn roles, sometimes crotchety, sometimes imperious, however often warmhearted. Classic examples of these were the crotchety Mrs. Bramson, an invalid who falls for the homicidal Robert Montgomery, in Night Must Fall (1937); Miss Froy\ in The Lady Vanishes (1938), wherein she plays the title character, enduring great physical exertion while maintaining her poise and dignity; and Lady Beldon in Mrs. Miniver (1942), a role which garnered her an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress. She proved herself equally capable of playing working-class roles, such as the dowdy phony psychic in The Thirteenth Chair (1937). Besides two Oscar nominations, she also won the National Board of Review best acting award for the 1937 film Night Must Fall (1937).

In 1892, she married London producer Ben Webster. They were the parents of a daughter, Margaret Webster, who became a playwright and actress in her own right. Margaret penned her mother's biography, The Same Only Different, published in 1969.

Whitty died at the age of 82 as the result of cancer in Beverly Hills shortly after completing her scenes in the film The Sign of the Ram (1948).

She once said, "I've got everything Betty Grable has ... only I've had it longer."

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