Almira Sessions
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16 September 1888, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
A member of a very socially prominent Washington family, Sessions played vaudeville, radio, television and film for sixty years. Sessions made her debut in 1909 in a comic opera. She has appeared over 500 times in movies and on television. Session sang comic songs in cabarets before going to New York to act on the stage. In 1940, she went to Hollyw...
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A member of a very socially prominent Washington family, Sessions played vaudeville, radio, television and film for sixty years. Sessions made her debut in 1909 in a comic opera. She has appeared over 500 times in movies and on television. Session sang comic songs in cabarets before going to New York to act on the stage. In 1940, she went to Hollywood to appear on Bob Hope's radio show and made her West Coast film debut that same year, having already appeared in numerous films on the East Coast during the preceding decade, usually playing bit parts as aunts, landladies, gossips and the like; Sessions retired from films in 1971. Show less «
I never was the pretty one, but I've got character. A character is somebody who isn't good-looking. And they want old women regularly around...Show more »
I never was the pretty one, but I've got character. A character is somebody who isn't good-looking. And they want old women regularly around here for films, television and ads--commercials, that is. All this gives me a soft cushion under where I sit, a fine car out in front and anything I want to order at the best restaurants in town. What else could a girl want? Show less «
"A very young man. Need I say more? It was off and on for some years, but you can't be a jackass all your life." (AS - regarding her first a...Show more »
"A very young man. Need I say more? It was off and on for some years, but you can't be a jackass all your life." (AS - regarding her first and only marriage) Show less «
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