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Ann Harding

Ann Harding

Highest Rated: 83% Peter Ibbetson (1935)

Lowest Rated: 71% The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)

Birthday: Aug 7, 1902

Birthplace: Fort Sam Houston, Texas, USA

Established Broadway lead who landed a contract in 1929 with Pathe (very soon thereafter part of RKO) and starred in a series of soap operas through the mid-1930s, most typically as suffering heroines who must make noble sacrifices for the men they love. With her ash-blonde hair usually swept back into a bun, the patrician Harding brought a gentle, serene strength to such worthy star vehicles as "When Ladies Meet" (1933) and "The Life of Vergie Winters" (1934) but fared less well in such awkward efforts as "Devotion" (1931) and "Enchanted April" (1935). Ideal for the philosophical sophistication of playwright Phillip Barry, Harding shone in fine adaptations of two of Barry's best comedy-drama talkfests: "Holiday" (1930), for which she received an Oscar nomination as Best Actress, and "The Animal Kingdom" (1932). Two of her best films came late in her reign as a star: the haunting, almost surreal love story "Peter Ibbetson" (1935, opposite Gary Cooper) and the taut suspense melodrama "Love from a Stranger" (1937, with Basil Rathbone).

Highest rated movies

83% The Magnificent Yankee
83% Peter Ibbetson
71% The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

Photos

EAST LYNNE, Ann Harding, Conrad Nagel, 1931, TM and copyright ©20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved EAST LYNNE, Wally Albright, Ann Harding, 1931, TM and copyright ©20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST, Ann Harding, Harry Bannister, 1930 HOLIDAY, Mary Astor, Ann Harding, 1930 HOLIDAY, Ann Harding, Mary Astor, 1930 HOLIDAY, Ann Harding, Robert Ames, 1930 THE MAGNIFICENT YANKEE, Ann Harding, 1950 WESTWARD PASSAGE, from left, Ann Harding, Laurence Olivier, 1932 WESTWARD PASSAGE, from left, Laurence Olivier, Ann Harding, 1932 EYES IN THE NIGHT, Ann Harding, Edward Arnold, Donna Reed, Reginald Denny, 1942 EYES IN THE NIGHT, Reginald Denny, Ann Harding, Donna Reed, 1942 NINE GIRLS, (front row), Leslie Brooks, Lynn Merrick, (center row), Anita Louise, Ann Harding, Evelyn Keyes, Nina Foch, (back row), Marcia Mae Jones, Jinx Falkenburg, Jeff Donnell, Shirley Mills, 1944 NINE GIRLS, Grady Sutton, Ann Harding, front, photographing Leslie Brooks, Lynn Merrick, Anita Louise, Ann Harding, Evelyn Keyes, Nina Foch, Marcia Mae Jones, Jinx Falkenburg, Jeff Donnell, Shirley Mills, 1944 THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST, Harry Bannister, Ann Harding, 1930 THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST, Harry Bannister, Ann Harding, 1930 EYES IN THE NIGHT, Donna Reed, Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Reginald Denny, 1942 MISSION TO MOSCOW, Walter Huston, Ann Harding, 1943 BIOGRAPHY OF A BACHELOR GIRL, celebrating Ann Harding's 34th birthday on-set are, cinematographer James Wong Howe, (sitting, second from left), assistant director Harry Sharrock, (back to camera), and, standing, right, stand-in Phyllis Yates, Yates's siste BIOGRAPHY OF A BACHELOR GIRL, from left: Robert Montgomery, Ann Harding on state trooper motorcycles at Lake Arrowhead location on set, 1935 EYES IN THE NIGHT, Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, 1942
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
71% 73% The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Helen Hopkins (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet No Score Yet I've Lived Before Mrs. Jane Stone (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet No Score Yet Strange Intruder Mary Carmichael (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet 43% The Unknown Man Stella Masen (Character) - 1951
83% 53% The Magnificent Yankee Fanny Bowditch Holmes (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet 76% Two Weeks With Love Katherine Robinson (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet 80% It Happened on 5th Avenue Mary O'Connor (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sinner's Holiday Aunt Matilda (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet 45% Christmas Eve Aunt Matilda Reed (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet No Score Yet Janie Gets Married Lucille Conway (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet No Score Yet Those Endearing Young Charms Mrs. Brandt (Character) - 1945
No Score Yet No Score Yet Nine Girls Grace Thornton (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet 33% Janie Lucille Conway (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet 20% Mission to Moscow Mrs. Marjorie Davies (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet 31% The North Star Sophia Pavlova (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet 38% Eyes in the Night Norma Lawry (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet 44% Love From a Stranger Carol Howard (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Lady Consents Anne Talbot (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Witness Chair Paula Young (Character) - 1936
83% 62% Peter Ibbetson Mary, Duchess of Towers (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet 40% Enchanted April Mrs. Lotty Wilkins (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Flame Within Dr. Mary White (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet Biography of a Bachelor Girl Marion Forsythe (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Life of Vergie Winters Vergie Winters (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gallant Lady Sally Wyndham (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Fountain Julie von Marwitz (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet 61% Double Harness Joan Colby (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Right to Romance Dr. Margaret "Peggy" Simmons (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet 45% When Ladies Meet Clare Woodruf (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet 56% The Animal Kingdom Daisy Sage (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Conquerors Caroline Ogden (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet 20% Westward Passage Olivia Van Tyne Allen Ottendorf (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet Pioneer Builders Caroline Ogden (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet Prestige Therese Du Flos Verlaine (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet Devotion Shirley Mortimer (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet 90% East Lynne Lady Isabella (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet 91% Holiday Linda Seton (Character) - 1930
No Score Yet 61% Condemned Madame Vidal (Character) - 1929
No Score Yet No Score Yet Paris Bound Mary Hutton (Character) - 1929
No Score Yet No Score Yet Her Private Affair Vera Kessler (Character) - 1929

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ben Casey Edith Sommers (Guest Star) 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dr. Kildare Unknown (Guest Star) 1964
No Score Yet 85% Alfred Hitchcock Presents Sarah Hale (Character) 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet The 20th Century-Fox Hour Unknown (Character) 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet Climax! Unknown (Character) 1955 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet Stage 7 Harriet Gates Adams (Character) 1955