---
name: "Hope Emerson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/hope-emerson"
fi1m_id: "hope-emerson"
imdb_id: "nm0256216"
tmdb_id: 85449
wikidata_id: "Q456166"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "29 October 1897"
died: "25 April 1960"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T04:37:05.737222+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Hope Emerson

## Identity

Hope Emerson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/hope-emerson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** hope-emerson
- **IMDb ID:** nm0256216
- **TMDB ID:** 85449
- **Wikidata ID:** Q456166
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_Emerson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q456166, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0256216/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/85449

Actor. Born 29 October 1897 in Hawarden, Iowa, USA. Died 25 April 1960.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 29 October 1897, Hawarden, Iowa, USA
- **Died:** 25 April 1960
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_Emerson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q456166, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0256216/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/85449

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Adam's Rib*](https://film.one/film/adams-rib.md) (82)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Hope Emerson was an American actress. She began performing as a child and worked in vaudeville before making her Broadway debut in *Lysistrata* in 1930.

She appeared in films from the late 1930s, with notable roles including Rose Given in *Cry of the City* (1948), Olympia La Pere in *Adam's Rib* (1949), Helena Domenico in *House of Strangers* (1949), Midge in *Thieves' Highway* (1949), Evelyn Harper in *Caged* (1950), for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, Patience Hawley in *Westward the Women* (1951), and Mrs. Rogers in *Rock-a-Bye Baby* (1958). She also worked in television, including a role in *Peter Gunn*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Adam's Rib* (1949), Fi1m 82, as Olympia La Pere — [page](https://film.one/film/adams-rib.md)

## Complete filmography (28)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Dennis O'Keefe Show* (1959), series, as Amelia 'Sarge' Sargent
- *Peter Gunn* (1958), series, as Mother
- *Rock-a-Bye Baby* (1958), as Mrs. Rogers
- *All Mine to Give* (1957), as Mrs. Pubmeister
- *The Guns of Fort Petticoat* (1957), as Hannah Lacey
- *The 20th Century Fox Hour* (1955), series, Actor
- *Untamed* (1955), as Maria DeGroot
- *Casanova's Big Night* (1954), as Duchess of Castelbello
- *Champ for a Day* (1953), as Ma Karlsen
- *A Perilous Journey* (1953), as Olivia Schuyler
- *The Lady Wants Mink* (1953), as Mrs. Hoxie
- *General Electric Theater* (1953), series, as Ada
- *Doc Corkle* (1952), series, as Nellie Corkle
- *Westward the Women* (1951), as Patience Hawley
- *Schlitz Playhouse of Stars* (1951), series, as Keziah Potter
- *Double Crossbones* (1951), as Mistress Ann Bonney
- *Belle Le Grand* (1951), as Emma McGee
- *Copper Canyon* (1950), as Ma Tarbet
- *Let's Join Joanie* (1950), as Health Club Trainer(uncredited)
- *Caged* (1950), as Evelyn Harper
- *Dancing in the Dark* (1949), as Mrs. Schlaghammer
- *Adam's Rib* (1949), as Olympia La Pere — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/adams-rib.md)
- *Roseanna McCoy* (1949), as Levisa Hatfield
- *Thieves' Highway* (1949), as Midge
- *House of Strangers* (1949), as Helena Domenico
- *Studio One* (1948), series, as Mrs. Flo Flower - Landlady, Rosie McTaggart, Mrs. Bascomb
- *Cry of the City* (1948), as Rose Given
- *Rough Necking* (1934), as Miss Bigelow - the Detective

## Gallery

- ![Hope Emerson](https://film.one/media/person/3867455/gallery-b822b20ac846.jpg) Hope Emerson — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Studio_publicity_Hope_Emerson.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Hope Emerson](https://film.one/media/person/3867455/gallery-3a75a9fd5893.jpg) Hope Emerson — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1951: Best Supporting Actress (nominated), for *Caged*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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