
January 9, 1891
Ann Shoemaker (January 10, 1891 - September 18, 1978) was an American actress, known for My Favorite Wife (1940), The Fortune Cookie (1966) and Alice Adams (1935). She was married to Henry Stephenson. She died on September 18, 1978, in Los Angeles, California.

A crooked lawyer persuades his brother-in-law to feign a serious injury.

Missing for seven years and presumed dead, a woman returns home on the very day that her husband remarries.

A ballet dancer and a showgirl fake a marriage for publicity purposes, then fall in love.

A working-class girl is thwarted and embarrassed in her attempts to move up socially by her gauche family and unstable father.

A deranged writer murders a maid after she resists his advances. The writer engages his brother's help in hiding the body, causing unexpected problems for both of them.

In order to cover up his philandering ways, a married Broadway producer sets one of his dancers up on a date with a chorus girl for whom he had bought a gift, but the two dancers fall in love for real.

A parole officer falls in love with his client, a ravishing blonde who served time for murder, and he's determined to help her go straight despite her interfering criminal boyfriend.

Failed singer Marian Washburn confesses she shot her friend, successful singer Susan Caldwell, but her manager Luke Jordan and Detective Fowler doubt her story and cannot establish a reasonable motive.

After a bout with polio, future president Franklin D. Roosevelt fights to save his political career.

An ambitious mechanic is tempted to desert his wonderful girlfriend when a silly but rich debutante falls for him.

A construction engineer with a heart of steel courts a social worker with a heart of gold, while fighting a protection racketeer that tries to derail the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge.

On his wedding eve, a groom's fiancée vanishes. Hiring a detective, he's drawn into a sinister conspiracy surrounding her ex-husband's death and his shady in-laws.

Broadway producer Nickie North, and his press agent Scoop Trimble, land a backer for a new show, but their "angel" requires that they rehearse the show out-of-town and star Clarice Sheldon, an ex-flame whose flickerings have becom...