Ann Rutherford
- Birthday
- Nov 2, 1920
Bio: Brunette Canadian leading lady Ann Rutherford had the sort of button-cute baby face that allowed her to play ingénues into her thirties. The daughter of an opera tenor and a stage actress, Rutherford was performing on-stage from childhood. She was still a teenager when she made her first film appearances as leading lady to such Western heroes as John Wayne and Gene… More Bio: Brunette Canadian leading lady Ann Rutherford had the sort of button-cute baby face that allowed her to play ingénues into her thirties. The daughter of an opera tenor and a stage actress, Rutherford was performing on-stage from childhood. She was still a teenager when she made her first film appearances as leading lady to such Western heroes as John Wayne and Gene Autry. At MGM from 1937, Ms. Rutherford gained minor stardom as Polly Benedict in the studio's Andy Hardy series. She was allowed to display her perky comic gifts in a trio of 1940s mystery-comedies co-starring Red Skelton (Whistling in the Dark, Whistling in Dixie, Whistling in Brooklyn), and was quite appealing as Careen O'Hara in Gone With the Wind (1939). She closed out her film career in 1950 to devote more time to her private life; for many years, she was the wife of 20th Century Fox executive William Dozier. Ann Rutherford returned to the screen in 1972 to join several fellow MGM alumni in They Only Kill Their Masters, thereafter confining most of her professional activity to her annual appearances as Suzanne Pleshette's mother on TV's The Bob Newhart Show (1972-1978). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Filmography
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Don Henley: Live Inside Job (2000)
- Actor
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
- Grayson's studio secretary
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They Only Kill Their Masters (1972)
- Gloria
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Operation Haylift (1950)
- Clara Masters
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Adventures of Don Juan (1949)
- Donna Elena
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Ann Rutherford Videos
Gone With The Wind
2 minutes 18 seconds
Whistling In The Dark
2 minutes 21 seconds
Whistling In Dixie
2 minutes 38 seconds
Dancing Co-ed
2 minutes 22 seconds
A Christmas Carol
1 minutes 12 seconds
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