Recent Obituaries, Classic Films Only

[CBHagman]

7. Actress Ann Rutherford.

She was featured in the Andy Hardy series and in Gone with the Wind, but to me, she'll always be the flighty, wayward Lydia Bennet of the 1940 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-ann-rutherford-20120612,0,7959825.story

While roller skating home from Virgil Junior High, Ann would detour to Wilshire Boulevard radio stations, where she wandered into viewing rooms to watch actors work.

"One day my English teacher criticized me," Rutherford told The Times in 1969, "and I was furious. I thought, I wouldn't have to listen to Miss So-and-So if I were an actress."

She invented an acting history and presented it to KFAC, and a month later she was voicing Nancy in the radio series "Nancy and Dick: The Spirit of 76," Rutherford recalled in 2010.

When an actress she resembled dropped out of the 1935 film "Waterfront Lady," Rutherford was cast in the first of nearly 60 movies she would make by 1950.



IMDB credits:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0751946/