Ann Blyth Articles

Ann Blyth on TCM: KISMET, ROSE MARIE, OUR VERY OWN 8:00 PM MILDRED PIERCE (1945). A woman turns herself into a business tycoon to win her selfish daughter a place in society. Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Ann Blyth, Eve Arden, Bruce Bennett. BW-111 mins. 10:00 PM KISMET (1955). In this Arabian Nights musical, the "king of the beggars" infiltrates [...]

Ann Blyth is Turner Classic Movies Star of the Evening tonight, as part of TCM's "The Essentials" film series. [Ann Blyth Movie Schedule.] Opera- and Broadway-trained Ann Blyth began her film career in the mid-1940s at Universal, appearing in light B musicals opposite Donald O'Connor and/or Peggy Ryan, among them The Merry Monahans, Chip Off the Old Block, and Babes on Swing Street. Blyth's big [...]

MILDRED PIERCE (1945) Direction: Michael Curtiz Cast: Joan Crawford, Ann Blyth, Zachary Scott, Jack Carson, Eve Arden, Bruce Bennett, Jo Ann Marlowe, Lee Patrick, Moroni Olsen, Veda Ann Borg Screenplay: Ranald MacDougall (Catherine Turney, Albert Maltz, and William Faulkner were among the uncredited contributors); from James M. Cain's novel Oscar Movies Joan Crawford, Mildred Pierce Time has a way of making some films seem grander [...]

Ann Blyth, who received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for the film noir Mildred Pierce (1945), is pictured above during a discussion following a screening of the Joan Crawford classic at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills on Monday, June 14, 2010. Mildred Pierce was shown as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' "Oscar Noir" series. In the movie, [...]