Ann E. Todd
Ann E. Todd (born August 26, 1931 in Denver , Colorado , as Ann Todd Phillips , married Ann Basart ; † February 7, 2020 ) was an American child actress .
life and career
Ann Todd was born to a musician couple, but grew up with her grandparents. This brought her into the film business early on and hoped for a career as the "second Shirley Temple ". Because her name was the same as the actress Ann Todd , she added an E. to her stage name . At the age of six she made her film debut in a small role in George Cukor's romantic comedy Zaza . Soon her film appearances grew, so in 1939 she already had a supporting supporting role as the daughter of Leslie Howard in the film drama Intermezzo . In the 1940s, Todd was one of the busiest child actresses in Hollywood; she played a classmate of Roddy McDowall in John Ford's Oscar-winning drama Schlagende Wetter (1941) or Ann Sheridan's younger self in the literary film adaptation of Kings Row (1942). She had one of her greatest roles in the 1941 film drama Echo der Jugend, starring Claudette Colbert and John Payne .
Even in adolescence, she was still successful, for example, she had one of the leading roles in the B-movie Dangerous Years (1947), an early film by Marilyn Monroe . After her three-year leading role in the television series The Stu Erwin Show at the side of comedian Stuart Erwin , she retired from acting in 1953. Todd later became a teacher and librarian at the University of California at Berkeley , where she had previously studied library science. In Berkeley, she became the founder and editor of Cum Notis Variorum , the library's newsletter that became known far beyond Berkeley. In 1984 she founded the publishing house Fallen Leaf Letters , in which she had published over 70 books by the year 2000, mostly musicological content.
From 1951 until his death in 1993 she was married to the music professor Robert Basart. The couple had two children. She last lived in retirement in Northern California and died in 2020 at the age of 88.
Filmography (selection)
- 1938: Zaza
- 1939: The Great Bluff (Destery Rides Again)
- 1939: Intermezzo (Intermezzo, a Love Story)
- 1939: Dr. Kildare: Under Suspicion (Calling Dr. Kildare)
- 1939: The Executioner of London (Tower of London)
- 1940: Hell, where is your victory? (All This and Heaven too)
- 1940: The Blue Bird
- 1940: Trek to Utah (Brigham Young - Frontiersman)
- 1940: Paul Ehrlich - A Life for Research (Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet)
- 1941: King of the Toreros (Blood and Sand)
- 1941: novel by a dancer (The Men in her Life)
- 1941: Echo der Jugend (Remember the Day)
- 1941: Beatable Weather (How Green Was My Valley)
- 1942: Kings Row
- 1945: Pride of the Marines
- 1945: A Roughly Speaking Woman
- 1946: The Jazz Singer (The Jolson Story)
- 1946: My Reputation
- 1947: Dangerous Years
- 1948: Three little beasts (Three Daring Daughters)
- 1950–1953: The Stu Erwin Show (TV series)
- 1951: Bomba the Avenger (The Lion Hunters)
Web links
- Ann E. Todd at the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary at Legacy.com
- ↑ Basart, Ann | Grove Music. Retrieved February 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Obituary at Legacy.com
- ↑ Biography of Ann E. Todd at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Ann E. Todd, Young Actress in 'Intermezzo' and 'Three Daring Daughters,' Dies at 88. Retrieved February 22, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Todd, Ann E. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Phillips, Ann Todd (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American child actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 26, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Denver , Colorado |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 7, 2020 |