Ann Harding (August 7, 1901 – September 1, 1981) was an American theatre, motion picture, radio, and television actress.
Born Dorothy Walton Gatley at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, the daughter of a career army officer, she traveled often during her early life. Her father, George C. Gatley, was born in Maine and served in the Armed Expeditionary Forces in World War I. He died in San Francisco, California in 1931. The family finally settled in New York, and young Dorothy attended Bryn Mawr College.
Following school, she found employment as a script reader, and began acting on Broadway.
In 1929 she made her film debut in Paris Bound, opposite Fredric March. In 1931 she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Holiday.
First under contract to Pathé, which was subsequently absorbed by RKO studio, Harding co-starred with such luminaries as Ronald Colman, Myrna Loy, Herbert Marshall, Leslie Howard, Richard Dix, and Gary Cooper, often on loan out to other studios, such...
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The Unknown Man is a 1951 courtroom drama film starring Walter Pidgeon.
Defense attorney Dwight Bradley Mason clears a young man who is accused of knifing to death the 19-year-old son of a local locksmith. When it's all over, however, the man makes a careless comment slip that makes Mason think that he is actually guilty. He also finds out his client is not only guilty but a member of a syndicate extorting money from the scared merchants in the locksmith's neighborhood. Mason, after finding the murder weapon used in the killing wants to have the man retried but a hard-nosed D.A. tells him a man can't be tried for a crime twice.
The lawyer, using the evidence in the case, investigates to find that Andrew Jason Layford, the head of the citizens' crime commission, is also involved in the syndicate. In a rage, Mason kills Layford. The young man, again defended by Mason, who walked free for another killing is accused of this crime and found guilty. Mason feels guilty and tries to confess...,
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The Magnificent Yankee is a 1950 biographical film which tells the life story of United States Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. It stars Louis Calhern, Ann Harding, Eduard Franz, and Philip Ober. Calhern created the role of Oliver Wendell Holmes in the play's original Broadway production, and the part was his only starring role in a sound film. A grateful MGM purchased the film rights of the play specifically as a reward to Calhern for playing secondary roles for the studio for years. The movie was adapted by Emmet Lavery from his play, which was adapted from the book Mr. Justice Holmes by Francis Biddle. It was directed by John Sturges. It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Louis Calhern) and Best Costume Design, Black-and-White. A Hallmark Hall of Fame TV production in 1965 starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne was a great success and won Emmys for both of the theater legends. ...
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Victor Moore, as a New York City hobo makes his winter home in a vacant 5th Avenue mansion whose owner, millionaire Michael J. O'Connor, has gone south. Moore winds up taking in ex-G.I. Don DeFore and runaway Gale Storm, who, unknown to him, is Ruggles' daughter and plays matchmaker for the pair.
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Mission to Moscow is a 1943 war film directed by Michael Curtiz from a screen play by Howard Koch based on a book by Ambassador Joseph E. Davies. It was scored by Max Steiner, with cinematography by Bert Glennon. The picture was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers. Ambassador Davies introduces the film; his part is played by Walter Huston. Ann Harding plays Marjorie Davies, Gene Lockhart is Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, Henry Daniell his German counterpart, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Dudley Field Malone plays British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Most parts, bar those of Davies' family, are taken by character actors who look like the famous politicians they are representing.
The movie chronicles Ambassador Davies' impressions of the Soviet Union, his meetings with Stalin, and his overall opinion of the Soviet Union and its ties with the United States. It made in faux-documentary style. The movie gives Davies' perspective on various points in Soviet history....
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East Lynne is an English novel of 1861 by Mrs. Henry Wood. Lady Isabel Carlyle, a beautiful and refined young woman, leaves her hard-working but neglectful lawyer-husband and her infant children to elope with an aristocratic suitor. After he deserts her, and she bears their illegitimate child, Lady Isabel disguises herself and takes the position of governess in the household of her husband and his new wife. East Lynne was a Victorian bestseller and is still sometimes performed as a drama. It is remembered chiefly for its elaborate and implausible plot, centering on double identity and bigamy, and the much-quoted line: "Gone! And never called me mother!" never appears in the book version of East Lynne. Another variation of this dialogue often ascribed to the book is "Dead! Dead! And never called me mother!" Neither were found in the novel, but were added to the later stage adaptations. East Lynne is frequently mentioned by author Edna Ferber as an example of typical 1880's stage ...,
Condemned is a 1929 melodrama film. It stars Ronald Colman, Ann Harding, Dudley Digges, Louis Wolheim, William Elmer, and Wilhelm von Brincken.The movie was adapted by Sidney Howard from the novel by Blair Niles. It was directed by Wesley Ruggles.It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor (Ronald Colman)....,
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