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==Death== Robson died in 1942 at her [[Beverly Hills, California]], home at age 84.<ref name="James p. 185">{{cite book|author1=Edward T. James|author2=Janet Wilson James|author3=Paul S. Boyer|title=Notable American Women, 1607β1950: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw02jame_0|url-access=registration|date=January 1, 1971|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-62734-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw02jame_0/page/185 185]}}</ref> In its obituary, the ''Nevada State Journal'' said that she died of "a combination of ailments, aggravated by neuritis and advanced age."<ref>{{cite journal|title=Hollywood's Oldest Film Queen Dies; May Robson's Age is Revealed as 78|journal=Nevada State Journal|location=Reno, Nevada|date=October 21, 1942}}</ref>{{efn|She was critically ill for three weeks before her death and in ill health for months before.<ref name="Inc.1942"/> A biographical sketch of Robson in the ''Notable American Women, 1607β1950'' stated that she died of cancer.<ref name="James p. 185"/>}} Her remains were cremated<ref>{{cite journal|title=Robson Burial Services Set|journal=Reno Evening Gazette|location=Reno, Nevada|date=October 22, 1942|page=5}}</ref> and buried at the [[Flushing Cemetery]] in [[Queens]], [[New York (state)|New York]], next to those of her second husband, Augustus Brown.<ref name=James/><ref name="Nisson p. 189"/> The ''New York Times'' called Robson the "dowager queen of the American screen and stage".<ref name=Nissen184/>
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