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Ann Blyth is a Actor American born on 16 august 1928 at New York City (USA)

Ann Blyth

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Birth name Ann Marie Blyth
Nationality USA
Birth 16 august 1928 (95 years) at New York City (USA)

Ann Marie Blyth (born August 16, 1928) is an American actress and singer, often cast in Hollywood musicals, but also successful in dramatic roles. Her performance as Veda Pierce in the 1945 film Mildred Pierce was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Biography

Ses parents, Harry Blyth et Nan Lynch, de souche irlandaise, divorcent quand elle est en bas âge. Avec sa sœur ainée, elle fréquente diverses écoles catholiques de New York. Dès l'âge de six ans, elle chante dans des programmes de radio. Elle chantera ainsi pendant six ans dans un même show. Elle obtient un premier rôle dans la pièce de théâtre, Watch on the Rhine en 1941 et 1942, à Broadway. Repérée par le réalisateur Henry Koster à Los Angeles, il lui fait faire un bout d'essai à l'issue duquel elle signe un contrat de sept ans avec les studios Universal avant de passer à la Warner Bros.

En 1945, à dix-sept ans, elle incarne le personnage de la fille ingrate de Joan Crawford dans le film noir Le Roman de Mildred Pierce. Ce rôle lui vaut d'être nommée aux Oscars dans la catégorie de la Meilleure actrice de second rôle.

La même année, lors de vacances d'hiver à Lake Arrowhead, elle est éjectée violemment d'une luge et se brise le dos. Les médecins pensent qu'elle ne pourra plus remarcher, mais elle guérit au bout de quatorze mois, avec le port d'un corset. Cette blessure empêchera la jeune actrice de tirer pleinement profit de son succès, bien qu'elle a été capable de tourner encore quelques films. En 1947, les studios Universal lui donnent un petit rôle dans Les Démons de la liberté, rôle qu'elle joue dans une chaise roulante.

Elle perd sa mère en 1946. En 1948, elle obtient un succès personnel en incarnant une sirène dans une comédie sans prétention, Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid , bien qu'il s’agisse d'un personnage qui ne parle pas.

Révélée dans le film noir par des maîtres du genre (Michael Curtiz, Jules Dassin, Roy Rowland), elle tourne ensuite essentiellement des comédies, parfois musicales (dirigées par Mervyn LeRoy ou Vincente Minnelli à l'occasion), avec des partenaires aussi brillants que William Powell, Bing Crosby, David Niven ou Robert Montgomery, des films d'aventures (La Perle noire en 1953), des films historiques (Le Monde lui appartient, avec Gregory Peck). Dans le genre du film à suspense, elle tourne avec Charles Boyer, Robert Mitchum et Tyrone Power, et dans l'adaptation littéraire, avec Fredric March.

À la fin des années cinquante et dans les années soixante, elle se produit dans des théâtres musicaux. Elle joue dans Une place au soleil d'après Theodore Dreiser, dirigée par Buzz Kulik au côté de Raymond Burr et Pat Crowley, en 1954 puis, en 1959, dans Suspected, face à June Allyson. Elle tourne dans des séries télévisées : La Grande Caravane (5 épisodes), La Quatrième Dimension (épisode La Reine du Nil où elle interprète une star du cinéma qui détient l'éternelle jeunesse), L'Homme à la Rolls, Switch, Quincy, et enfin Arabesque, son dernier rôle, en 1985.

Ann Blyth a son étoile sur le Walk of Fame de Hollywood.

Best films

The Great Caruso (1951)
(Actress)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
(Actress)

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Filmography of Ann Blyth (30 films)

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Actress

The Helen Morgan Story, 1h58
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Ann Blyth, Paul Newman, Richard Carlson, Gene Evans, Alan King, Cara Williams
Roles Helen Morgan
Rating62% 3.1468953.1468953.1468953.1468953.146895
Helen Morgan begins her career as a Chicago carnival dancer. She catches the eye of fast-talking, double-dealing Larry Maddux, whose promotion catapults her to fame as a Broadway performer in Show Boat and a headliner in her own nightclub.
Slander
Slander (1957)

Directed by Roy Rowland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir
Actors Van Johnson, Ann Blyth, Steve Cochran, Marjorie Rambeau, Richard Eyer, Harold J. Stone
Roles Connie Martin
Rating63% 3.1943753.1943753.1943753.1943753.194375
Scandal magazine editor and publisher H. R. Manley spares nobody in his efforts to sell more of his tabloid publication, "The Real Truth," making a fortune for the past two years but appalling his mother with his methods.
The Buster Keaton Story, 1h31
Directed by Sidney Sheldon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy
Actors Donald O'Connor, Ann Blyth, Rhonda Fleming, Peter Lorre, Larry Keating, Jackie Coogan
Roles Gloria Brent
Rating51% 2.5686052.5686052.5686052.5686052.568605
Le film raconte la vie de l'acteur américain du cinéma muet Buster Keaton.
Kismet
Kismet (1955)
, 1h53
Directed by Vincente Minnelli, Stanley Donen
Origin USA
Genres Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Howard Keel, Ann Blyth, Dolores Gray, Monty Woolley, Sebastian Cabot, June Kirby
Roles Marsinah
Rating62% 3.146123.146123.146123.146123.14612
In old Baghdad, an impoverished poet goes to the marketplace to sell his rhymes for food. Because the Poet has set up shop in a spot usually reserved for a man named Hajj, some men kidnap the Poet and take him to the desert tent of Jawan, an elderly thief. Jawan, assuming that the Poet is Hajj, orders him to reverse the curse Hajj put on him fifteen years ago, which led to the kidnapping of Jawan's beloved son. The Poet asks for one hundred gold pieces to reverse the curse; Jawan agrees, and returns to Baghdad to look for his son.
The King's Thief, 1h18
Directed by Hugo Fregonese, Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Actors Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, David Niven, George Sanders, Roger Moore, John Dehner
Roles Lady Mary
Rating58% 2.902992.902992.902992.902992.90299
James (Niven), the Duke of Brampton and the richest man in England, is so trusted by King Charles II (Sanders), he is able to have two of the King's loyal friends executed for treason. The second is the father of Lady Mary (Blyth). She travels from France to London to seek justice. While there, she meets Michael Dermott (Purdom), a soldier who fought to restore Charles to the throne.
The Student Prince, 1h47
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Monde imaginaire, Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Political films, Films based on plays, Operetta films, Films about royalty
Actors Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, John Ericson, Louis Calhern, Edmund Gwenn, S.Z. Sakall
Roles Kathie Ruder
Rating64% 3.2459153.2459153.2459153.2459153.245915
Young Prince Karl, of a small sub-kingdom of the German Empire, is sent off near the turn of the 20th century to get a university education in Heidelberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg. His grandfather was one of a handful of petty kings within German-speaking central Europe. Fictional Karlsburg is small, but fiercely proud of its history and traditions.
Rose Marie
Rose Marie (1954)
, 1h44
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Operetta films
Actors Ann Blyth, Howard Keel, Fernando Lamas, Bert Lahr, Marjorie Main, Joan Taylor
Roles Rose Marie Lemaitre
Rating57% 2.898642.898642.898642.898642.89864
Rose Marie Lemaître (Ann Blyth) rencontre Mike Malone (Howard Keel), policier canadien qui tente de l'utiliser afin de capturer James Duvall (Fernando Lamas), trappeur recherché, et amant de la jeune femme.
All the Brothers Were Valiant, 1h41
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Ann Blyth, Betta St. John, Keenan Wynn, James Whitmore
Roles Priscilla 'Pris' Holt
Rating61% 3.0981253.0981253.0981253.0981253.098125
Seafaring saga of two brothers and the woman they both love. Set against South Pacific islands, this love triangle pits the good brother against the bad as they squabble over a woman and a bag of pearls on the floor of a lagoon; the bad brother redeems himself, however, by helping fend off a mutiny.
One Minute to Zero, 1h45
Directed by Tay Garnett
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Politique, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Robert Mitchum, Ann Blyth, Charles McGraw, William Talman, Richard Egan, Margaret Sheridan
Roles Mrs. Linda Day
Rating58% 2.903422.903422.903422.903422.90342
Just prior to the North Korean invasion of South Korea, World War II U.S. Army veterans Colonel Steve Janowski (Robert Mitchum) and Sergeant Baker (Charles McGraw) are teaching South Korean soldiers how to use a bazooka to stop an enemy tank. Linda Day (Ann Blyth) is a United Nations worker assisting refugees. Janowski warns Day and her colleagues to leave the area because hostilities are imminent. Day, however, insists that the North Koreans would not risk the wrath of world opinion. In response, Janowski asks her if world opinion stopped Hitler.
The World in His Arms, 1h44
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Gregory Peck, Ann Blyth, Anthony Quinn, John McIntire, Sig Ruman, Carl Esmond
Roles Countess Marina Selanova
Rating67% 3.395683.395683.395683.395683.39568
In 1850 San Francisco, Russian Countess Marina Selanova (Blyth) flees from an arranged marriage to Prince Semyon (Esmond). She books passage with "Portugee" (Quinn) to Sitka, where her uncle Governor Ivan Vorashilov (Sig Ruman) can protect her.
The Golden Horde, 1h17
Directed by George Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Children's films
Actors Ann Blyth, David Farrar, George Macready, Henry Brandon, Howard Petrie, Richard Egan
Roles Princess Shalimar
Rating54% 2.715112.715112.715112.715112.71511
En l'an 1220, Sir Guy of Devon (David Farrar) et un petit groupe de croisés anglais, arrivent à Samarcande, en Asie centrale. La ville et la princesse régnante, Shalimar (Ann Blyth), sont menacées par Genghis Khan (Marvin Miller) et ses hordes. Shalimar espère vaincre le conquérant par la ruse, alors que Sir Guy préfère la bataille frontale. En dépit d'une attirance réciproque entre Shalimar et Sir Guy, leur méthode divergente compromet tout espoir de victoire.
The Great Caruso, 1h49
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Ann Blyth, Dorothy Kirsten, Richard Hageman, Jarmila Novotná, Alan Napier, Carl Benton Reid
Roles Dorothy Benjamin
Rating64% 3.244853.244853.244853.244853.24485
L'histoire du ténor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921), depuis son enfance jusqu'à sa mort, en passant par les étapes de son ascension.
The House in the Square, 1h30
Directed by Roy Ward Baker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Time travel films, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Tyrone Power, Ann Blyth, Michael Rennie, Dennis Price, Beatrice Campbell, Kathleen Byron
Roles Helen Pettigrew
Rating69% 3.492813.492813.492813.492813.49281
Peter Standish is an American atomic scientist who is working in a nuclear laboratory in London. His co-worker Roger Forsyth, who is worrying about Peter's lack of social activities, takes him to a house in Berkeley Square he inherited. It is there where Peter announces his wishes of living in the 18th century among the high-class family Petigrew he has studied the last years. Because of a lightning strike, he is brought back to 1784, where he is thought to be the first Peter Standish, the American cousin of the Petigrews who, according to history, will soon romance and marry Kate Petigrew.
Thunder on the Hill, 1h24
Directed by Douglas Sirk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Claudette Colbert, Ann Blyth, Robert Douglas, Gladys Cooper, Michael Pate, Philip Friend
Roles Valerie Carns
Rating67% 3.3917353.3917353.3917353.3917353.391735
Sister Mary Bonaventure is in charge of the hospital ward of a convent in the county of Norfolk, England. She is troubled by her own sister's suicide, which she confides to her Mother Superior.
Our Very Own, 1h33
Directed by David Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children, Films about families
Actors Ann Blyth, Farley Granger, Joan Evans, Jane Wyatt, Ann Dvorak, Donald Cook
Roles Gail Macaulay
Rating66% 3.3392053.3392053.3392053.3392053.339205
Los Angeles teenager Gail Macaulay is going steady with deliveryman Chuck, a relationship that sparks jeaolusy in her younger sister Joan. When Joan needs her birth certificate in order to obtain summer employment, her mother Lois tells her to look in a box in her dresser, where the girl discovers Gail's adoption papers.