| Who is it? | Actress, Soundtrack |
| Birth Day | November 09, 1883 |
| Birth Place | Malden, Massachusetts, United States |
| Edna May Oliver age | 136 YEARS OLD |
| Died On | November 9, 1942(1942-11-09) (aged 59)\nMalibu, California, U.S. |
| Birth Sign | Sagittarius |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1917–1941 |
| Spouse(s) | David Welford Pratt (1928–1931; divorced) |
Edna May Oliver, a renowned actress and soundtrack artist in the United States, is reportedly set to have a net worth of $1.7 million by 2024. With a successful career spanning several decades in the entertainment industry, Oliver has left an indelible mark on audiences with her remarkable performances. Known for her distinctive voice and memorable characters, she has garnered immense acclaim and a loyal fan base throughout her career. With such an impressive net worth, it is a testament to her talent and dedication to her craft.
Oliver received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Drums Along the Mohawk (1939).
Born Edna May Nutter in Malden, Massachusetts, the daughter of Ida May and Charles Edward Nutter, Oliver was a descendant of John Quincy Adams and John Adams, the sixth and second Presidents of the United States. This was probably Hollywood publicity. Her father's stepfather, Samuel Oliver, did have a mother named Julia Adams descended from a John Adams (born 1724) but not the John Adams (born 1737) or his son John Quincy Adams. She quit school at age fourteen in order to pursue a career on stage and achieved her first success in 1917 on Broadway in Jerome Kern's musical comedy Oh, Boy!, playing the hero's comically dour Aunt Penelope.
Her film debut was in 1923 in Wife in Name Only. She continued to appear in films until Lydia in 1941. Oliver first gained major notice in films for her appearances in several comedy films starring the team of Wheeler & Woolsey including Half Shot at Sunrise, her first film under her RKO Radio Pictures contract in 1930. While usually playing featured parts, she starred in ten films, including the women's stories Fanny Foley Herself and Ladies of the Jury.
In 1925, Oliver appeared on Broadway in The Cradle Snatchers, co-starring Mary Boland, Gene Raymond and Humphrey Bogart. Oliver's most notable stage appearance was as Parthy, wife of Cap'n Andy Hawks, in the original 1927 stage production of the musical Show Boat. She repeated the role in the 1932 Broadway revival, but turned down the chance to play Parthy in the 1936 film version of the show to play the Nurse in that year's film version of Romeo and Juliet.
When asked why she played predominantly comedic roles, she replied, "With a horse's face, what more can I play?"; however, she was cast in non-comedic films such as Cimarron (1931), Ann Vickers (1933), A Tale of Two Cities (1935), David Copperfield (1935), and Romeo and Juliet (1936).
While at MGM, David O. Selznick had her cast in two film versions of novels by Charles Dickens, including A Tale of Two Cities (1935), starring Ronald Colman, as the prim but acidic Miss Pross and David Copperfield (also 1935) as the eccentric Betsy Trotwood.
Oliver received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Drums Along the Mohawk (1939).
Oliver died on her 59th birthday in 1942 following a short intestinal ailment that proved terminal, and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
