Ann E. Todd

Ann E. Todd

Born: August 26, 1931
Died: February 7, 2020
in Denver, Colorado, USA
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Ann E. Todd (born Ann Todd Phillips, later Ann Basart or Ann Phillips Basart; August 26, 1931 – February 7, 2020) was an American child actress. Later in life she became a noted music librarian.

Todd made her acting debut in 1939 in Zaza directed by George Cukor. In a career spanning over 14 years, she appeared in almost 40 movies alongside notable stars such as Ingrid Bergman, Shirley Temple, James Stewart, Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck and Marlene Dietrich.

Due to the similarities between her name and the then already established British actress Ann Todd, she added the middle initial E. to her name.

Todd was a regular in The Stu Erwin Show between 1950–53 before quitting show business for good. She became a teacher and librarian in her later life before retiring in California.

Movies for Ann E. Todd...

The Lion Hunters
Title: The Lion Hunters
Character: Jean Forbes
Released: March 25, 1951
Type: Movie
A lion trapper and his daughter rendezvous with their hardheaded partner in the African jungle. Bomba, with assistance from a local tribe, strives to run them off.
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Title: The Stu Erwin Show
Character: Joyce Erwin
Released: October 21, 1950
Type: TV
The Stu Erwin Show is an American sitcom which aired on ABC for five seasons from 1950 to 1955.
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Cover Up
Title: Cover Up
Character: Cathie Weatherby
Released: February 25, 1949
Type: Movie
Insurance investigator Sam Donovan is looking into the apparent suicide of a man in a small Midwestern town. All clues leads him into suspecting murder. Unfortunately, no one wants to assist him with the case, including Sheriff Larry Best.
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Arthur Takes Over
Title: Arthur Takes Over
Character: Valarie Jeanne Bradford
Released: April 7, 1948
Type: Movie
A young woman must find a way to break the news to her parents and a stuffy suitor that she is now married to a sailor.
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Three Daring Daughters
Title: Three Daring Daughters
Character: Ilka Morgan
Released: February 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
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Dangerous Years
Title: Dangerous Years
Character: Doris Martin
Released: December 7, 1947
Type: Movie
Jeff Carter has put an end to the town's delinquency with a boys' club. Young hoodlum Danny shows up and influences teenagers Doris, Willy and Leo. They hang out at a juke joint where Eve works. When Jeff tries to stop a robbery planned by Danny, he is killed and Danny goes on trial.
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Homesteaders of Paradise Valley
Title: Homesteaders of Paradise Valley
Character: Melinda Hill
Released: March 31, 1947
Type: Movie
Red Ryder convinces homesteaders to settle in Paradise Valley. Business men in nearby Central City want control of the valley and water supply and propose to build a dam for half interest in the land. They use Red to generate interest in the dam but when the dam is completed, they rig the stockholder's meeting so Central City will get the water.
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Margie
Title: Margie
Character: Joyce Fontayne
Released: October 15, 1946
Type: Movie
A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.
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My Reputation
Title: My Reputation
Character: Gretchen Van Orman
Released: January 25, 1946
Type: Movie
Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her own children.
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Pride of the Marines
Title: Pride of the Marines
Character: Loretta Merchant (as Ann Todd)
Released: August 24, 1945
Type: Movie
Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wife.
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Roughly Speaking
Title: Roughly Speaking
Character: Young Louise Randall
Released: January 31, 1945
Type: Movie
In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again.
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Dixie Dugan
Title: Dixie Dugan
Character: Imogene Dugan (as Ann Todd)
Released: March 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman Power for War. He takes a cab driven by Dixie Dugan, who hopes that being a cabbie while the country's men are away fighting will help the war effort. Her incompetent driving, however, results in an accident for which Roger must take responsibility in order to reach the radio station in time. Dixie then returns home, where she lives with her father Timothy, who is constantly practicing his air raid warden duties, her mother Gladys, an aspiring Red Cross worker, and cousin Imogene, who studies incessantly to become a "quiz kid." The Dugans rent out their spare rooms to Dixie's fiancé, Matt Hogan, and to blustering Judge J. J. Lawson. Matt, who works in a munitions factory, wants Dixie to settle down and marry him, but Dixie is determined to help her country.
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Beyond the Blue Horizon
Title: Beyond the Blue Horizon
Character: Tama as a Child (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1942
Type: Movie
A young girl's parents are killed on a tropical island, and the girl is raised and protected by the jungle animals. When she is found, as a grown woman, she is taken back to the United States to claim her inheritance. There are several people, with vested interests, who stand to gain something if she is shown not to be the missing heir.
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On the Sunny Side
Title: On the Sunny Side
Character: Betty (as Ann Todd)
Released: February 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in Ohio. Don, the Andrews' 11-year-old son, eagerly accepts the English boy, and is happy when his school-friends do the same. But his isn't so happy when things begin to change when his father fore-goes their evening game of Chinese Checkers to play chess with Hugh, and Hugh shows himself to be a formidable scholar, and impresses Don's girlfriend Betty, and becomes more popular with the boys than Don was...and Don is beginning to think that Hugh is too much of a good thing. Don gets downright depressed and decides to run away. Uh, oh, here comes Hugh.
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Kings Row
Title: Kings Row
Character: Young Randy
Released: February 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.
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Over My Dead Body
Title: Over My Dead Body
Character: Tailor's Little Girl
Released: January 15, 1942
Type: Movie
Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) at the office where she works, Berle overhears several men discussing the suicide of a coworker. Struck with a brilliant notion, Berle decides to confess to the murder of the dead man, certain that he'll be able to wriggle out of the situation and thereby have plenty of material for a story.
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Remember the Day
Title: Remember the Day
Character: Kate Hill
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
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The Men in Her Life
Title: The Men in Her Life
Character: Rose
Released: October 30, 1941
Type: Movie
A circus performer becomes a ballerina and then begins her life of a career versus marriage and a home-life. She marries her first husband, her mentor and instructor, primarily out of gratitude. After his death, she marries an American thinking that can be her escape from the world of ballet. But she leaves him to return the dancing. She has a child but does not tell her husband. When her daughter is two-years-old, the husband finds out and takes the child to America. The ballerina continues to dance until her best dancing days have gone by.
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How Green Was My Valley
Title: How Green Was My Valley
Character: Ceinwen
Released: October 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.
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Private Nurse
Title: Private Nurse
Character: Barbara Winton
Released: August 22, 1941
Type: Movie
In this brief B programmer, a nurse is hired to care for a widower's daughter who is unaware that her father is a gangster and that her mother is actually still alive. The concerned nurse burdens herself with the difficult responsibility of revealing the unfortunate truth.
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Bad Men of Missouri
Title: Bad Men of Missouri
Character: Amy Younger
Released: July 26, 1941
Type: Movie
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
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Blood and Sand
Title: Blood and Sand
Character: Carmen (as a child)
Released: May 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face real danger in the bullring.
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Keeping Company
Title: Keeping Company
Character: First Stooge
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Wholesome comedy about newlyweds (and the bride's understanding--but sometimes interfering--parents) discovering married life isn't always bliss.
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Brigham Young
Title: Brigham Young
Character: Mary Kent
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.
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All This, and Heaven Too
Title: All This, and Heaven Too
Character: Berthe
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the volatile and obsessive Duchesse de Praslin, she instantly incurs the wrath of her mistress, who is insanely jealous of anyone who comes near her estranged husband. Though she saves the duchess's little son from a near-death illness and warms herself to all the children, she is nevertheless dismissed by the vengeful duchess. Meanwhile, the attraction between the duke and Henriette continues to grow, eventually leading to tragedy.
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Little Orvie
Title: Little Orvie
Character: Patsy Balliser
Released: March 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to keep the stray dog he befriends.
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Title: Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Character: Marianne
Released: February 23, 1940
Type: Movie
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.
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Granny Get Your Gun
Title: Granny Get Your Gun
Character: Charlotte Westcott
Released: February 10, 1940
Type: Movie
An elderly woman turns sheriff to clear her granddaughter of murder charges.
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The Blue Bird
Title: The Blue Bird
Character: Little Sister
Released: January 15, 1940
Type: Movie
An ungrateful girl and her little brother are transported in their dreams by a fairy to a wonderland, tasked with finding the mythical blue bird of happiness, meeting friends and foes along the way.
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Destry Rides Again
Title: Destry Rides Again
Character: Claggett Girl
Released: November 30, 1939
Type: Movie
When a tough western town needs taming, the mild-mannered son of a hard-nosed sheriff gets the job.
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Tower of London
Title: Tower of London
Character: Princess (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
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Bad Little Angel
Title: Bad Little Angel
Character: Libbit Creighton, Age 9 (uncredited)
Released: October 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.
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Intermezzo: A Love Story
Title: Intermezzo: A Love Story
Character: Ann Marie Brandt
Released: October 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter's talented piano teacher. When he invites her to go on tour with him, they make beautiful music away from the concert hall as well. He soon leaves his wife so the two can go off together.
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Stronger Than Desire
Title: Stronger Than Desire
Character: Susan Flagg
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
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The Zero Hour
Title: The Zero Hour
Character: Beth
Released: May 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A celebrated Broadway actress and a wealthy widowed businessman are brought together through their shared affection for a young orphan.
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Calling Dr. Kildare
Title: Calling Dr. Kildare
Character: Jenny (uncredited)
Released: April 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. While working there Kildare meets pretty nurse Mary Lamont, and ends up treating a hoodlum with a gunshot wound. He purposely fails to write a report on it, and soon finds himself in a heap of trouble. Who else would come to his rescue but good old Dr. Gillespie?
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Zaza
Title: Zaza
Character: Toto
Released: December 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A seductive music hall star falls in love with a married aristocrat.