Ann Rutherford

<html> <head> <title>Ann Rutherford</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style></head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr><map name=fool><area coords="102,0,240,14" href="/people/551/000102245/bibliography/" alt="bibliography"></map><tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 0px 15px 15px 15px;"><img src="/red-profile-2.gif" align="right" height=15 width=240 border=0 usemap=#fool> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0>Ann Rutherford<img src="ann-rutherford-2-sized.jpg" height=348 width=245 align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 alt="Ann Rutherford">AKA Therese Ann RutherfordBorn: <a href="/lists/824/000106506/" class=proflink>2-Nov</a>-<a href="/lists/916/000105601/" class=proflink>1917</a> Birthplace: <a href="/geo/829/000069622/" class=proflink>Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada</a> Died: <a href="/lists/049/000106728/" class=proflink>11-Jun</a>-<a href="/lists/634/000277800/" class=proflink>2012</a> Location of death: <a href="/geo/425/000069218/" class=proflink>Beverly Hills, CA</a> Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, <a href="/cemetery/682/000208058/" class="proflink">Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, CA</a> Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: ActorNationality: United States Executive summary: Andy Hardy's girlfriend PollyAnn Rutherford was a lead actress in low-budget films in the 1930s and 1940s. She was raised in a show-business family, and worked as a child actress in radio and theatrical productions. If her birthdate is accurate (always iffy with actresses of her era) she was 15 when she starred in her first film, Waterfront Lady, in 1935. For several years, she worked at Republic Pictures, starring opposite <a href="/people/095/000043963/">Gene Autry</a> in Melody Trail and The Singing Vagabond and <a href="/people/605/000023536/">John Wayne</a> in The Lonely Trail and The Lawless Nineties. Republic, though, was a low-prestige operation, so when her contract lapsed Rutherford jumped to MGM, where she played Polly, <a href="/people/861/000022795/">Mickey Rooney</a>'s object of chaste desire in a dozen "Andy Hardy" films that seem corny now, but were wildly popular in the late 1930s and '40s. She was often called "America's Sweetheart", featured in fawning profiles in celebrity magazines, and posed in ads for Cannon Hosiery and Royal Crown Cola. Rutherford also played sister of the leading lady in the classics Gone with the Wind and Pride and Prejudice, and starred opposite <a href="/people/659/000033560/">Red Skelton</a> in the comedy-mystery Whistling in the Dark and two sequels, Whistling in Dixie and Whistling in Brooklyn. She disappeared from films in the 1950s, but came out of retirement in the 1970s to occasionally play <a href="/people/969/000023900/">Suzanne Pleshette</a>'s mother on The Bob Newhart Show. Her last feature film was Won Ton Ton, The Dog Who Saved Hollywood, where she had a tiny role as <a href="/people/658/000023589/">Bruce Dern</a>'s secretary. Rutherford's first husband was David May, about whom little is known. Her second husband, William Dozier, had formerly been married to <a href="/people/487/000026409/">Joan Fontaine</a>, and was a film and TV producer with a taste for overblown action -- his credits range from the cheap mid-1950s science fiction series Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers to The Green Hornet to the campy 1960s series Batman, on which Dozier was also the unseen narrator ("Same bat-time, same bat-channel). Her stepson Robert Dozier was a longtime TV writer for shows like Dan August and Harry O, and scripted <a href="/people/123/000023054/">Judy Garland</a>'s last and perhaps most melodramatic film, I Could Go On Singing.Father: John Defferin Rutherford ("Juan Guilberty", opera singer) Mother: Lucille Mansfield (stage actress) Sister: Laurette Rutherford ("Judith Arlen", actress, b. 18-Mar-1914, d. 5-Jun-1968) Husband: David May (m. 24-Dec-1942, div. 1953, two children) Daughter: Gloria May (b. 1943) Husband: William Dozier (producer, b. 1908, m. 6-Oct-1953, d. 23-Apr-1991) Daughter: Deborah Dozier Potter (stepdaughter) Son: Robert Dozier (stepson)     High School: Fairfax High School (Los Angeles, CA)     FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR     <a href="/films/610/000042484/">Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (26-May-1976)</a>     <a href="/films/446/000035341/">They Only Kill Their Masters (22-Nov-1972)</a>     <a href="/films/066/000384908/">Operation Haylift (5-May-1950)</a>     <a href="/films/462/000078228/">Adventures of Don Juan (1-Dec-1948)</a> · Do馻 Elena     <a href="/films/232/000035127/">The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (14-Aug-1947)</a> · Gertrude Griswold     <a href="/films/865/000219208/">Inside Job (14-Jun-1946)</a>     <a href="/films/850/000387686/">Murder in the Music Hall (10-Apr-1946)</a>     <a href="/films/970/000253211/">Bedside Manner (14-Jun-1945)</a> · Lola Cross     <a href="/films/303/000223631/">Two O'Clock Courage (13-Apr-1945)</a> · Patty Mitchell     <a href="/films/165/000279325/">Bermuda Mystery (1-May-1944)</a>     <a href="/films/595/000223923/">Whistling in Brooklyn (Dec-1943)</a>     <a href="/films/956/000225281/">Happy Land (10-Nov-1943)</a>     <a href="/films/216/000172697/">Whistling in Dixie (31-Dec-1942)</a> · Carol Lambert     <a href="/films/287/000208660/">Andy Hardy's Double Life (Dec-1942)</a> · Polly Benedict     <a href="/films/974/000079737/">Orchestra Wives (4-Sep-1942)</a> · Connie Ward     <a href="/films/286/000208659/">The Courtship of Andy Hardy (Mar-1942)</a>     <a href="/films/601/000352542/">This Time for Keeps (Mar-1942)</a> · Katherine White     <a href="/films/285/000208658/">Life Begins for Andy Hardy (15-Aug-1941)</a> · Polly Benedict     <a href="/films/215/000172696/">Whistling in the Dark (8-Aug-1941)</a>     <a href="/films/599/000352540/">Washington Melodrama (18-Apr-1941)</a> · Laurie Claymore     <a href="/films/816/000035711/">Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (21-Feb-1941)</a> · Polly Benedict     <a href="/films/157/000381011/">Keeping Company (27-Dec-1940)</a>     <a href="/films/905/000348858/">Wyoming (13-Sep-1940)</a> · Lucy Kincaid     <a href="/films/744/000038630/">Pride and Prejudice (26-Jul-1940)</a> · Lydia Bennet     <a href="/films/785/000089518/">Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (5-Jul-1940)</a> · Polly Benedict     <a href="/films/830/000266032/">The Ghost Comes Home (8-Mar-1940)</a> · Billie Adams     <a href="/films/620/000259840/">Judge Hardy and Son (22-Dec-1939)</a> · Polly Benedict     <a href="/films/879/000032783/">Gone with the Wind (15-Dec-1939)</a> · Carreen O'Hara     <a href="/films/638/000173119/">Dancing Co-Ed (29-Sep-1939)</a>     <a href="/films/931/000378794/">These Glamour Girls (18-Aug-1939)</a>     <a href="/films/960/000241237/">Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (18-Jul-1939)</a> · Polly Benedict     <a href="/films/239/000255471/">The Hardys Ride High (14-Apr-1939)</a>     <a href="/films/885/000121522/">Four Girls in White (27-Jan-1939)</a> · Patricia Page     <a href="/films/866/000038752/">A Christmas Carol (16-Dec-1938)</a> · Spirit of Christmas Past     <a href="/films/340/000268533/">Dramatic School (9-Dec-1938)</a> · Yvonne     <a href="/films/944/000262158/">Out West with the Hardys (25-Nov-1938)</a> · Polly Benedict     <a href="/films/301/000079064/">Love Finds Andy Hardy (22-Jul-1938)</a> · Polly Benedict     <a href="/films/283/000208656/">Judge Hardy's Children (26-Mar-1938)</a>     <a href="/films/022/000038905/">Of Human Hearts (5-Feb-1938)</a> · Annie Hawks     <a href="/films/398/000271582/">You're Only Young Once (10-Dec-1937)</a> · Polly Benedict     <a href="/films/354/000280511/">Public Cowboy No. 1 (23-Aug-1937)</a> · Helen Morgan     <a href="/films/806/000231113/">The Lonely Trail (25-May-1936)</a>     <a href="/films/963/000244231/">Comin' Round the Mountain (31-Mar-1936)</a> · Dolores Moreno     <a href="/films/472/000369362/">The Lawless Nineties (15-Feb-1936)</a>     <a href="/films/470/000208843/">The Singing Vagabond (16-Dec-1935)</a> · Lettie Morgan     <a href="/films/369/000280526/">Melody Trail (21-Oct-1935)</a> · Millicent Thomas Do you know something we don't? 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