Fern Emmett

• Born: Mar 22, 1896 in Oakland, California
• Died: Sep 03, 1946 in Hollywood, California
• Occupation: Actor
• Active: '30s-'40s
• Major Genres: Western, Comedy
• Career Highlights: Dead Men Walk, Burning Gold, The Forty-Niners
• First Major Screen Credit: Second Honeymoon (1931)

Biography

Most of character actress Fern Emmett's early appearances were in westerns, where she played scores of maiden aunts, hillbilly wives, town spinsters, ranch owners and stagecoach passengers. When she moved into contemporary films, she was most often seen as a landlady or gossip. She enjoyed a rare breakaway from this established screen persona when she played a screaming murder victim in the 1943 Universal thriller Captive Wild Women. Seldom given more than a few lines in "A" features, Emmett was better-served in programmers and 2-reel comedies. Emmett so closely resembled "Wicked Witch of the West" Margaret Hamilton that some historians have lumped their credits together, even though Emmett began her film career in 1930, three years before Hamilton ever stepped before a camera. Fern Emmett was the wife of actor Henry Rocquemore. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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