Personal Info
Birth date
1896-03-21 (129 Years)
Day of death
1946-09-03
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Oakland, California, USA
Also known as
-Fern Emmett
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Fern Emmett (March 22, 1896 – September 3, 1946) was an American film actress. She appeared in 212 films between 1930 and 1946. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fern Emmett, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Texas Terror
4.661
Overview:
Sheriff John Higgins quits and goes into prospecting after he thinks he has killed his best friend in shooting it out with robbers. He encounters his dead buddy's sister and helps her run her ranch. Then she finds out about his past.Assassin of Youth
2.8
Overview:
A high-school girl gets involved with a ring of teenage marijuana smokers and starts down the road to ruin. A reporter poses as a soda jerk to infiltrate the gang of teen dope fiends.The Mummy's Tomb
5.635
Overview:
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.You and Me
6.679
Overview:
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.Half a Sinner
5.182
Overview:
Although young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to take a walk on the wild side, splurging on some fashionable new clothes and setting off to find adventure. Her new confidence inspires her to flirt with complete strangers. When a gangster pays unwanted attention to her, she ditches him and flees in his car, unaware that there's a corpse in the trunk. Determined to recover his stolen vehicle and its incriminating cargo the thug begins a desperate search. The oblivious Anne, comes to the aid of a handsome young man stranded alongside the road. Romance blooms, but after the shocking discovery of a body in the trunk, the duo decide they have to return the car. The bickering lovebirds head back to the city, trailed by both the angry gangster and the cops, who suspect the young couple of murder.A Song to Remember
6.3
Overview:
Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.Woman of the Year
6.892
Overview:
Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.The Riders of the Whistling Skull
5.2
Overview:
When Professor Marsh disappears while searching for the lost city of Lukachukai, his daughter enlists the help of the Three Mesquiteers.Dead Men Walk
4.4
Overview:
When a small town doctor buries his twin brother, a practitioner of the black arts, he believes him dead; but subsequent events force him to realize that his brother has, in fact, returned from the dead as a vampire and is seeking revenge on the doctor, who had killed him in self-defense.Wells Fargo
5.154
Overview:
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.It Happened Tomorrow
6.678
Overview:
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.The Shepherd of the Hills
6.6
Overview:
Young Matt Matthews, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt's mother and left her to die. His obsession contributes to the hatred rampant in the mountains. However, the arrival of a stranger, Daniel Howitt, begins to positively affect the mountain people, who learn to shed their hatred under his gentle influence.Swing Time
6.837
Overview:
Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will allow him to marry her. He and business partner Pop go to New York where they run into dancing instructor Penny. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but romance is blighted by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricky.She Done Him Wrong
5.806
Overview:
New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them is a vicious criminal who’s escaped and is on the way to see “his” girl, not realising she hasn’t exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader.In Name Only
7
Overview:
A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
6
Overview:
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
6.433
Overview:
A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.The Rains Came
5.881
Overview:
Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken artist ex-lover Tom Ransome get in the way, but everyone shapes up when faced by earthquake, flooding, and plague.I Stole a Million
6
Overview:
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.Pot o' Gold
5.5
Overview:
Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle.In Old California
5.1
Overview:
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.The Monster and the Girl
5.8
Overview:
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.One Foot in Heaven
6.583
Overview:
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.In Old Cheyenne
4.1
Overview:
Roy is a newspaper reporter. He goes to Cheyenne to cover the activities of supposed bad guy Arapahoe Brown. Roy, of course, discovers who the real bad guy is.Jungle Woman
4.9
Overview:
Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher, reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody.Saga of Death Valley
6.2
Overview:
When Tasker kills Roy Rogers he takes one of his young sons. Fifteen years later the other son Roy arrives buying a ranch in the valley where Tasker now controls the water supply. Roy organizes the ranchers for a showdown with Tasker not knowing that his brother is Tasker's chief henchman.They Shall Have Music
6.1
Overview:
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.Acting
1947The Trouble with Women as Landlady (uncredited)
1945Pillow of Death as Unknown
1945A Song to Remember as Madame Lambert (uncredited)
1944San Diego I Love You as Mrs. Callope
1944Jungle Woman as Beth's Neighbor (archive footage / uncredited)
1944Tale of a Dog as Gossiper
1944It Happened Tomorrow as Unknown
1943Is Everybody Happy? as Mrs. Broadbelt
1943The West Side Kid as Landlady
1943First Comes Courage as Dress designer, Dress Designer (uncredited)
1943Captive Wild Woman as Beth's Murdered Neighbor (uncredited)
1943Gildersleeve's Bad Day as Mrs. Marvin (uncredited)
1943Dead Men Walk as Kate
1943Slightly Dangerous as Burden's maid (uncredited)
1943A Stranger in Town as Hotel Maid
1943Quiet Please, Murder as Miss Philbert
1943Keep 'Em Slugging as Lady in 'poiple'
1943Cinderella Swings It as Clara Potts
1942The Sundown Kid as Agnes Peabody
1942The Great Gildersleeve as Second Old Crow
1942My Heart Belongs to Daddy as Josephine-the Maid
1942Calling All Pa's as Grandma Thunderstruck (uncredited)
1942The Mummy's Tomb as Laura - Wedding Dress Seamstress (uncredited)
1942Henry Aldrich, Editor as Miss Bryant
1942In Old California as Mrs. Coggins
1942Broadway as Will's Wife (uncredited)
1942The Tuttles of Tahiti as Martha (uncredited)
1942Shut My Big Mouth as Hotel Maid
1942Valley of the Sun as Spinster
1942Woman of the Year as Mrs. Calverton (uncredited)
1941You're in the Army Now as Farmer's Wife
1941Go West, Young Lady as Townswoman
1941Miss Polly as Mrs. Frisbee
1941One Foot in Heaven as Woman Gossip (uncredited)
1941The Great Man's Lady as City Editor's Secretary
1941Henry Aldrich for President as Mrs. Perkins
1941Jesse James at Bay as Mrs. Emmy Davis
1941Six-Gun Gold as Jenny Blanchard
1941The Shepherd of the Hills as Mrs. Palestrom
1941Love Crazy as Martha - Ireland's Maid
1941Scattergood Pulls the Strings as Clara Potts
1941She Knew All the Answers as Woman Applicant
1941In Old Cheyenne as Miss Smith
1941Pot o' Gold as Boy's Mother (uncredited)
1941The Monster and the Girl as Woman Social Organizer (uncredited)
1941Scattergood Baines as Clara Potts
1940Keeping Company as Mrs. Miller
1940Michael Shayne: Private Detective as Jenny
1940Arise, My Love as Spinster (Uncredited)
1940Rangers of Fortune as Mrs. Ellis
1940Triple Justice as Martha Hathaway
1940Young People as Unknown
1940The Lady in Question as Natalie Roguin #2 (uncredited)
1940Lucky Partners as Hotel Chambermaid (uncredited)
1940Deadwood Dick as Miranda
1940Star Dust as Della
1940Half a Sinner as Margaret Reed
1940Young Tom Edison as Mrs. McCarney
1940Little Orvie as Mrs. Jackson
1940Abe Lincoln in Illinois as Minor Role (uncredited)
1940Hidden Enemy as Aunt Mary
1940The Man Who Wouldn't Talk as Housekeeper Annie
1939Reno as Shayne's Secretary
1939Saga of Death Valley as Miss Minnie
1939Sabotage as (uncredited)
1939Desperate Trails as Mrs. Plunkett
1939The Rains Came as Hindu Woman (uncredited)
1939They Shall Have Music as Woman on Steps (uncredited)
1939In Name Only as Hotel Chambermaid (uncredited)
1939I Stole a Million as Visitor in Hospital (uncredited)
1939Frontier Marshal as Hotel Maid
1939Second Fiddle as Townswoman
1939Lucky Night as Mrs. Applewaite (uncredited)
1939The Story of Alexander Graham Bell as Mac Gregor's Maid
1939Wife, Husband and Friend as Maid
1939Tail Spin as Matilda, Gerry's Maid (Uncredited)
1939Made for Each Other as Farmer's Wife (uncredited)
1939Boy Trouble as Receptionist
1939Pirates of the Skies as Unknown
1938Swing, Sister, Swing as Customer
1938Overland Stage Raiders as Unknown
1938Crime Ring as Alice-Phoebe's Maid
1938You and Me as Mother of Nasty Little Girl (uncredited)
1938Hunted Men as Miss Quinn
1938Female Fugitive as Cook who quits
1938Assassin of Youth as Henrietta Frisbee
1937Wells Fargo as Mrs. Jenkins
1937Amateur Crook as Sarah, Ephraim's Wife
1937Girls Can Play as Unknown
1937Dangerous Holiday as Aunt Elsie
1937Come on, Cowboys as Bus Passenger Mother
1937Michael O'Halloran as Ella (uncredited)
1937Jim Hanvey, Detective as Noisy Neighbor (uncredited)
1937Paradise Express as Landlady
1937Sea Devils as Miss McGonigle - Librarian (uncredited)
1937The Devil Diamond as Miss Wallace
1937The Riders of the Whistling Skull as Henrietta McCoy
1936Don't Turn 'em Loose as Hattie - Webster Housekeeper
1936Walking on Air as Bennett's Maid (uncredited)
1936Swing Time as Unknown
1936M'Liss as Mrs. Larkin
1936Burning Gold as Cousin Lena
1936Fatal Lady as American Tourist (uncredited)
1936The Harvester as Miss Sophronia
1936The Trail of the Lonesome Pine as Lena Tolliver
1936Dancing Feet as Silas' Secretary
1936The Oregon Trail as Minnie
1936Two in the Dark as Housekeeper (uncredited)
1936Three on a Limb as Molly's Mother
1935Heir to Trouble as Amanda Witherspoon
1935Melody Trail as Nell - Cowgirl Foreman
1935Texas Terror as Aunt Martha Hubbard
1935The E-Flat Man as Farmer's Wife
1935Smart Girl as Miss Brown
1935Motive for Revenge as Mrs. Kenilworthy - Housekeeper
1935Big Calibre as Woman at Dance
1935Loser's End as Molly O'Hara, the Cook
1934Terror of the Plains as Rose
1934The Curtain Falls as Undetermined Secondary Role
1934Happy Landing as Landlady
1934Gunfire as Unknown
1934City Limits as Mrs. Benton
1933His Weak Moment as Unknown
1933The Trail Drive as Aunt Martha
1933Dora's Dunking Doughnuts as Woman at Radio Station (uncredited)
1933Hello, Everybody! as Ettie
1933She Done Him Wrong as Woman in Conversation (uncredited)
1932Boy Oh Boy! as Woman with fur
1932Young Blood as Mrs. Pettiwell
1932The Forty-Niners as Widow Spriggs
1932Honeymoon Beach as Ma Watts
1932Hollywood Lights as Landlady
1932Love in High Gear as Hotel Maid
1932Mother's Holiday as Mother
1932Hollywood Luck as Unknown
1932Bridge Wives as Al's wife, Mrs. Smith
1932Anybody's Goat as Fanny
1931Idle Roomers as Unknown
1931Queenie of Hollywood as Landlady (uncredited)
1931Neck and Neck as Aunt Susan
1931Mickey's Wildcats as Mrs. Davis
1931The Ridin' Fool as Miss Scully
1931A Rider of the Plains as Miss Whipple
1931West of Cheyenne as Rose
1931Ten Nights in a Bar-room as Fanny
1930Westward Bound as Emma
1930Knights Before Christmas as Ma
1930The Land of Missing Men as Martha Evans
1930Second Honeymoon as Maid
1930Bar-L Ranch as Mrs. Polk
1930Romance of the West as Unknown
1930Mickey's Warriors as Society lady
1930Mickey's Champs as Unknown
1929Mickey's Surprise as Woman in audience
1928Say Uncle as Unknown