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Ann E. Todd is a Actor American born on 26 august 1931 at Denver (USA)

Ann E. Todd

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Birth name Ann Todd Phillips
Nationality USA
Birth 26 august 1931 at Denver (USA)
Death 7 february 2020 (at 88 years)

Ann E. Todd est une actrice (puis musicologue) américaine, née Ann Todd Phillips le 26 août 1931 à Denver (Colorado).

Biography

Née de parents musiciens (son père, Burrill Phillips , est compositeur, pianiste et pédagogue), elle est adoptée et élevée par ses grands-parents maternels qui ambitionnent pour elle une carrière au cinéma, à l'instar de Shirley Temple. Elle apparaît dans trente-huit films américains entre 1939 (à huit ans) et 1951, année où elle se marie avec Robert Basart (décédé en 1993), s'installe avec lui à Berkeley (Californie), et renonce définitivement à cette première carrière qui l'intéressait peu, au profit de la musicologie.

Ainsi, elle étudie l'histoire de la musique, d'abord à l'université de San Francisco durant trois ans, puis à l'université de Californie à Berkeley où, après avoir obtenu son diplôme, elle travaillera comme bibliothécaire (section Musique) durant une vingtaine d'années. Dans l'intervalle, elle fonde également une maison de publication, "Fallen Leaf Press".

Durant sa brève carrière cinématographique (elle participe également à une série télévisée de 1950 à 1953), elle est souvent créditée "Ann Todd", d'où l'adjonction du "E." dans les années 1940, afin d'éviter la confusion (régulièrement faite) avec l'actrice britannique Ann Todd.

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Filmography of Ann E. Todd (35 films)

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Cover Up
Cover Up (1949)
, 1h23
Directed by Alfred E. Green
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Dennis O'Keefe, William Bendix, Barbara Britton, Art Baker, Ann E. Todd, Doro Merande
Roles Cathie Weatherby
Rating65% 3.297053.297053.297053.297053.29705
In a small Midwestern town a man is found dead. When insurance investigator Sam Donovan (O'Keefe) arrives looking into the apparent suicide, all clues lead him into suspecting murder. Unfortunately, no one wants to assist him with the case, including Sheriff Larry Best (Bendix). Finally, attractive local girl Anita (Britton) breaks the silence and helps investigator Donovan solve the case.
Three Daring Daughters, 1h55
Directed by Fred M. Wilcox
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jeanette MacDonald, José Iturbi, Jane Powell, Edward Arnold, Harry Davenport, Ann E. Todd
Roles Ilka Morgan
Rating61% 3.0975053.0975053.0975053.0975053.097505
It's Tess' graduation day from "Miss Drakes School for Girls". During the choir's performance at the ceremony, Tess notices that her beautiful, divorcee mother, Louise Rayton Morgan isn't there. Louise, an editor for Modern Design Publication, is lying in Dr. Cannon's office from fainting due to being over-worked and stressed-out. At home after the graduation ceremony, Dr. Cannon has a talk with Louise's three daughters, Tess, Ilka and Alix. He tells them that their mother needs a vacation badly, but the only way she can relax is if she goes without the girls. The girls agree, but Louise is reluctant; however, the girls convince her to go. The girls see their mother off on her one month Cuban cruise. When the girls get home they discuss their mother, and believe if they bring their father back home it will make their mom happy and healthy again. In reality, Louise has kept the truth about their father from them. Their father was actually a very uncaring man, who left them and left Louise to raise the girls on her own. The girls go to see their father's boss, Robert Nelson to locate their father and bring him home. Meanwhile on Louise's Cuban cruise, she meets famed pianist and conductor, Jose Iturbi. Jose is immediately taken by Louise, but she plays hard to get, while having the time of her life. When Louise finally returns home, she has a secret to tell the girls, but, the girls have a secret too.
Arthur Takes Over, 1h3
Directed by Malcolm St. Clair
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Lois Collier, Richard Crane, Skip Homeier, Ann E. Todd, Robert Walker, Ann E. Todd
Roles Valarie Jeanne Bradford
Rating57% 2.888942.888942.888942.888942.88894
Dangerous Years, 1h2
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Billy Halop, Scotty Beckett, Richard Gaines, Jerome Cowan, Marilyn Monroe, Ann E. Todd
Roles Doris Martin
Rating56% 2.810572.810572.810572.810572.81057
The God fearing residents of Middleton are worried that the Gopher Hole, a new road house restaurant outside of town, will bring their teenage kids to ruin. Jeff Carter, who is a history teacher at the local school, goes on to look closer at the place to see if all the worries are justified.
My Reputation, 1h34
Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Christmas films
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Eve Arden, Lucile Watson, Warner Anderson, Scotty Beckett
Roles Gretchen Van Orman
Rating68% 3.446733.446733.446733.446733.44673
200px When her beloved husband dies after a long illness, Jessica Drummond (Barbara Stanwyck) is comforted by the executor of her husband's estate, lawyer Frank Everett (Warner Anderson), who's been a family friend for years and, later, shows an interest in dating "Jess". Her mother (Lucile Watson) has worn black for decades, since her husband passed, and would love for her daughter to follow her example. Jess has two young boys: Kim (Scotty Beckett), who is fourteen, and Keith (Bobby Cooper), who's twelve. Both go off to school leaving their newly widowed mother at home alone to deal with her loneliness. She tries to reconnect with the "old gang" that she and her husband socialized with while he was alive, but finds they remind her too much of him. She's even accosted by one of them, George Van Orman (Jerome Cowan), when he brings her home one night. Fortunately, she has a real friend in Ginna Abbott (Eve Arden), whom she runs to, and stays with, the night she was accosted. Ginna and her husband Cary (John Ridgely) invite Jess to spend a week's vacation at Lake Tahoe with them.
Margie
Margie (1946)
, 1h35
Directed by Henry King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Jeanne Crain, Lynn Bari, Glenn Langan, Alan Young, Barbara Lawrence, Conrad Janis
Roles Joyce Fontayne
Rating71% 3.590363.590363.590363.590363.59036
In 1946, Margie (Jeanne Crain) is a housewife reminiscing about her high school days with her own teenage daughter, who has just discovered her mother's old photo album in the attic. In a flashback to the 1920s, Margie is a high-spirited girl living with her dominant but good-hearted Grandmother McSweeney (Esther Dale). Her mother has died and her father (Hobart Cavanaugh), the local mortician, lives apart from Margie and her grandmother, only visiting on Wednesday due to his busy work schedule, and sometimes not even staying long enough to see his daughter. The youngest girl in her class, Margie does very well at her schoolwork, but she is not socially adept and wears old-fashioned clothing, including bloomers that frequently fall down. By contrast, her pretty and fashionable neighbor Marybelle Tenor (Barbara Lawrence) wears short skirts and lipstick and dates the popular but dimwitted captain of the football team, Johnny Green (Conrad Janis). Margie secretly has a crush on Johnny, but he regards her as a "pain in the neck". When Margie meets the handsome new French teacher at her high school, Professor Ralph Fontayne (Glenn Langan), she becomes even more smitten with him, and he seems to take an interest in her as well. Meanwhile, Margie's bumbling classmate Roy Hornsdale (Alan Young) is in love with her, and constantly attempts to court her despite her disinterest in him.
Roughly Speaking, 1h57
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Rosalind Russell, Jack Carson, Alan Hale, Robert Hutton, Andrea King, Johnny Sheffield
Roles Young Louise Randall
Rating69% 3.4930553.4930553.4930553.4930553.493055
Louise Randall Pierson (Rosalind Russell) does not have an easy life. When she is a teenager, her beloved father dies, leaving her, her mother, and her sister in financial difficulty. However, heeding her father's advice to shoot for the stars, she remains undaunted. She goes to college and learns typing and shorthand; on her first (temporary) job, she overcomes the prejudice of her new boss, Lew Morton (Alan Hale, Sr.), against women workers.
Pride of the Marines, 2h
Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors John Garfield, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark, John Ridgely, Ann Doran, Mark Stevens
Roles Loretta Merchant (as Ann Todd)
Rating72% 3.6426753.6426753.6426753.6426753.642675
The film is divided in three parts. The first takes place prior to the war where cocky Philadelphia steel worker and "Man's man" Al Schmid (John Garfield) despises the idea of marriage and losing his independence until he meets his match in Ruth Hartley (Eleanor Parker). Ruth takes no nonsense from him and impresses Schmid by enjoying a hunting trip he takes her on.
Dixie Dugan
Directed by Otto Brower
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Lois Andrews, James Ellison, Charlotte Greenwood, Charles Ruggles, Raymond Walburn, Ann E. Todd
Roles Imogene Dugan (as Ann Todd)
Rating71% 3.584863.584863.584863.584863.58486
Kings Row
Kings Row (1942)
, 2h7
Directed by Sam Wood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Betty Field, Ronald Reagan, Charles Coburn, Claude Rains
Roles Young Randy
Rating74% 3.746643.746643.746643.746643.74664
The film commences in 1890 in the small town of Kings Row, focusing on five children. They are Parris Mitchell, who lives with his grandmother; Cassandra Tower, daughter of Dr. Alexander Tower; the wealthy orphan Drake McHugh; Louise Gordon, daughter of the sadistic town physician Dr. Henry Gordon, who has been known to perform operations without anesthetic; and the tomboy Randy Monaghan, whose father is a railroad worker.
On the Sunny Side, 1h9
Directed by Harold D. Schuster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Roddy McDowall, Jane Darwell, Stanley Clements, Katharine Alexander, Donald Douglas, Ann E. Todd
Roles Betty (as Ann Todd)
Rating62% 3.1429753.1429753.1429753.1429753.142975
Hugh Aylesworth (Roddy McDowall), is a well-bred English youth who is evacuated to America during the London Blitz. Hugh moves into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Andrews (Don Douglas and Katherine Alexander). The couple's own son Don (Freddie Mercer), feels neglected and considers Hugh a royal pain in the posterior.
Remember the Day, 1h26
Directed by Henry King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Films about education, Children's films
Actors Claudette Colbert, John Payne, Shepperd Strudwick, Ann Todd, Ann E. Todd, Ann E. Todd
Roles Kate Hill
Rating71% 3.5873853.5873853.5873853.5873853.587385
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell reflects on her life and teaching career while waiting to see Dewey Roberts, formerly her student and currently a Presidential nominee. This film is reminiscent of Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941) and Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955).