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Ann Blyth
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"Rose Marie Lemaitre (Ann Blyth) is a beautiful, headstrong tomboy, raised in the rugged mountains of the Northwest Territory and used to fending for herself. Upon the death of her father, Rose Marie becomes the ward of Sgt. Mike Malone (Howard Keel), who takes her to live in the Mountie fort. Resentful at first, she soon grows to love both life at the fort and Sgt. Mike. However, Mike is soon forced to realize that the fort is no place for the lovely young woman that Rose Marie has become and brings her to 'Lady' Jane Dunstock (Marjorie Main), who instructs Rose Marie in the womanly arts."
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From All Movie Guide: 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.
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Ann Blyth trat bereits im Alter von fünf Jahren als Sängerin auf. Sie entwickelte sich als Jugendliche zu einem hellen Sopran und erhielt die Chance in Broadway Shows aufzutreten. Mit 15 Jahren kam sie nach Hollywood und erhielt Rollen in Musicals. Bereits 1945 erhielt sie ihre erste Oscarnominierung als selbstsüchtige, psychotische Tochter von Joan Crawford in Solange ein Herz schlägt). Sie spielte bis Ende der 1950er Jahre in Hollywoodfilmen und zog sich dann zurück. 1953 hatte die Katholikin den elf Jahre älteren Arzt Dr. James McNulty geheiratet, mit dem sie fünf Kinder hat.
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Synopsis: Katherine "Katie" Standish (Ann Blyth) has been raised in a restrictive small town by her prudish Aunt Priscilla (Elizabeth Patterson). When Katie heads to New York to help out her improvident Uncle Nathaniel (Cecil Kellaway), she experiences an emotional and romantic awakening. The catalyst forRead More
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Ann Blyth began her legendary singing career at an early age. A radio singer at age 5, American actress Ann Blyth studied for an operatic career, making her debut with the San Carlo Opera Company. At age 15, Ann's dramatic talents led her to play Paul Lukas' daughter in the Broadway production, Watch on the Rhine.Two years later she was under contract to Universal studios.
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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.
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