Ann Richards
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"Ann Richards has three alarm beauty and four alarm talent"--TIME Magazine
"Ann Richards is charming . . . and I mean charming"--Louella Parsons
Biography
This Australian-born actress appeared in six films in her native land before leaving for Hollywood with the outbreak of WWII. Ann Richards subsequently played a series of leads and second leads for MGM and Paramount in the 1940s in such films as King Vidor's "An American Romance" (1944), William Dieterle's "Love Letters" (1945) and Anatole Litvak's "Sorry, Wrong Number" (1948). She retired to raise a family, but returned to the public eye as poet ("The Grieving Senses," "Odyssey," the verse play "Helen of Troy"). Later, she took up oil painting and lectured on her travels throughout the Soviet Union, China and Tibet.
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Life Events
1937
Feature film debut in "It Isn't Done"
1980
Began prize-winning career as an oil painter
1982
Researched, narrated, and co-produced (with first husband Edmond Angelo) "Ann Richards in the U.S.S.R.", filmed on a 50,000 mile tour
1984
Appeared in Australian documentary "Don't Call Me Girlie"
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Notes
"Ann Richards has three alarm beauty and four alarm talent"--TIME Magazine
"Ann Richards is charming . . . and I mean charming"--Louella Parsons
