Ann Blyth

Highest Rated: 100% The World in His Arms (1952)

Lowest Rated: 57% Kismet (1955)

Birthday: Aug 16, 1928

Birthplace: Mount Kisco, New York, USA

A radio singer at age 5, American actress Ann Blyth studied for an operatic career, making her debut in this endeavor with the San Carlo Opera Company. In 1943, at age 15, Ann was playing Paul Lukas' daughter in the Broadway production Watch on the Rhine; two years later she was under contract to Universal studios as the latest in that company's "threats" against their recalcitrant resident soprano Deanna Durbin. Blyth wasn't given anything close to a chance to show her talents until she was cast as Joan Crawford's hateful daughter Veda in Mildred Pierce (1945). For this performance, which ran the gamut from thinly veiled insults addressed at Crawford to the murder of her mother's paramour (Zachary Scott), she was nominated for an Academy Award. After recovering from a back injury, Blyth worked ceaselessly in films, alternating between sappily sweet parts in such fluff as Free for All (1949) and Sally and St. Anne (1951) and tougher assignments like the white-hot truculence expended in her portrayal of Regina Hubbard in Another Part of the Forest (1948). Perhaps the most off-kilter of her starring roles was in Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948) wherein she played the female half of the title, spending much of the film in a state of (implied) toplessness. In 1954, she was finally permitted to display her beautifully trained voice in such musicals as The Student Prince (1954), Rose Marie (1955) and Kismet (1956). But when called upon to play a real-life songstress in The Helen Morgan Story (1957), she was dubbed by Gogi Grant! Helen Morgan Story was Blyth's final film role; she spent the rest of her career on stage, TV and in concert - and, in the late 1970s, she showed up as the surprisingly domesticated spokesperson for Hostess Cupcakes.

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	Chip Off The Old Block	Actor	—	2012
No Score Yet	The Helen Morgan Story	Helen Morgan	—	1957
57%	Kismet	Marsinah	—	1955
No Score Yet	The King's Thief	Lady Mary	—	1955
57%	The Student Prince	Kathie Ruder	—	1954
No Score Yet	Rose Marie	Rose Marie Lemaitre	—	1954
No Score Yet	All the Brothers Were Valiant	Priscilla 'Pris' Holt	—	1953
100%	The World in His Arms	Countess Marina Selanova	—	1952
No Score Yet	One Minute to Zero	Mrs. Linda Day	—	1952
No Score Yet	I'll Never Forget You (The House in the Square) (Man of Two Worlds)	Martha ForsythHelen Pettigrew	—	1951
80%	Thunder on the Hill	Valerie Carns	—	1951
No Score Yet	The Great Caruso	Dorothy Benjamin	—	1951
No Score Yet	The Golden Horde	Princess Shalimar	—	1951
No Score Yet	Our Very Own	Gail Macaulay	—	1950
No Score Yet	Red Canyon	Lucy Bostel	—	1949
No Score Yet	Once More, My Darling	Marita Connell	—	1949
No Score Yet	Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid	Mermaid	—	1948
No Score Yet	Another Part of the Forest	Regina Hubbard	—	1948
No Score Yet	A Woman's Vengeance	Doris Mead	—	1948
No Score Yet	Killer McCoy	Sheila Carrson	—	1947
94%	Brute Force	Ruth	—	1947
86%	Mildred Pierce	Veda	—	1945
No Score Yet	Babes on Swing Street	Carol Curtis	—	1944
No Score Yet	The Merry Monahans	Sheila De Royce	—	1944

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
No Score Yet	Murder, She Wrote 1984-1996	Actor	1985
No Score Yet	Quincy, M.E. 1976-1983	Velma Whitehead Dorothy Blake	1983 1979
82%	The Twilight Zone 1959-1964	Pamela Morris	1964

Quotes from Ann Blyth's Characters

Veda Pierce:

You think just because you made a little money you can get a new hairdo and some expensive clothes and turn yourself into a lady. But you can't, because you'll never be anything but a common frump whose father lived over a grocery store and whose mother took in washing.