Ann Brody Goldstein (1884-1944) made her theatrical debut aged nine and spent years working with Stock companies. The date of her first screen appearance is disputed, but her earliest indisputable performance was in the wonderfully-titled Cupid Puts One Over on the Shatchen, made for the Vitagraph Company in 1915. (A shatchen is a Jewish marriage broker.)
Brody was commended for her combining of comedy with pathos, which inevitably led to Yiddisher Momma roles. She notched up fifty years in the show business, but was still working on Broadway in 1940.
Ann Brody played Moe’s wife in So This Is College.
