Ann Harding
Date of birth: 1902-08-07
Place of birth: San Antonio, Texas, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Dorothy Gatley, Dorothy Walton Gatley
Biography
Ann Harding (August 7, 1902 – September 1, 1981) was an American theatre, motion picture, radio, and television actress. A regular player on Broadway and in regional theater in the 1920s, in the 1930s Harding was one of the first actresses to gain fame in the new medium of "talking pictures", and she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1931 for her work in Holiday.
Movie Credits
Armored Attack!
1957-01-01
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Re-edited version of
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
1956-04-12
Tom Rath is a suburban father and husband haunted by his memories of World War II, including a warti
Love from a Stranger
1937-04-18
Ann Harding plays a lovely but somewhat naive young woman who goes on a European vacation after winn
Two Weeks with Love
1950-11-10
The Robinson family are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills. Older da
The Unknown Man
1951-11-09
A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
1947-04-17
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house wit
East Lynne
1931-03-01
The refined Lady Isabel Carlisle, after leaving her family and enduring nearly a decade of hardships
Eyes in the Night
1942-10-16
Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an o
Peter Ibbetson
1935-11-07
When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live wi
Christmas Eve
1947-10-31
The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administe
The Magnificent Yankee
1950-12-20
Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Devotion
1931-09-25
A young Londoner disguises herself to become governess of the son of the barrister she loves.
The Animal Kingdom
1932-12-28
Tom Collier has had a great relationship with Daisy, but when he decides to marry, it is not Daisy w
Condemned!
1929-11-03
Suave thief Colman is sent to Devil's Island, where he becomes romantically involved with the wife o
Holiday
1930-07-03
A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's f
Strange Intruder
1956-09-02
A Korean War veteran must find his buddy's widow and children to keep a bizarre promise.
I've Lived Before
1956-09-01
Seeing a certain woman makes an airline pilot think he is a reincarnated World War I pilot.
Gallant Lady
1933-12-07
Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies.
Mission to Moscow
1943-04-29
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to th
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
1935-01-04
Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsy
Prestige
1932-01-22
A woman joins her fiance at a Malaysian prison camp only to discover he's become an alcoholic.
Westward Passage
1932-05-27
A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Eu
The Life of Vergie Winters
1934-06-14
A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman a
Enchanted April
1935-02-01
Mrs. Lotty Wilkins is an unhappily wife whom's life husband and romance have departed. In order to p
When Ladies Meet
1933-06-23
Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor J
Double Harness
1933-07-21
After tricking him into marriage, a woman tries to win the love of her philandering husband.
The Right To Romance
1933-11-17
Against her better judgment, a dedicated and hard-working plastic surgeon (Ann Harding) finds hersel
Janie Gets Married
1946-06-22
Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her fath
Janie
1944-09-02
Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father.
The Conquerors
1932-11-18
A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.
The Flame Within
1935-05-17
Psychiatrist finds herself falling for her patient.
The Fountain
1934-08-22
Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned Briti
Paris Bound
1929-08-03
Jim Hutton and Mary Archer are two liberals who are content to remain faithful to each other in spir
The Lady Consents
1936-02-07
Civilized wife doesn't protest when husband runs off with uncivilized professional golfer pretending
The North Star
1943-11-04
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and
Her Private Affair
1929-09-27
A married society woman accidentally kills her would-be lover and blackmailer and then suffers a cri
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007-05-23
Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well
Those Endearing Young Charms
1945-06-19
A soldier loses his girlfriend to his best buddy.
A Compassionate Spy
2022-08-31
Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos w
The Witness Chair
1936-04-23
Late one night, secretary Paula Young (Ann Harding) leaves the office of her boss, Stanley Whittaker
The Hollywood Gad-About
1934-10-04
A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master
The Girl of the Golden West
1930-10-12
A hard-bitten saloon girl falls for a dashing outlaw, and tries to keep the local sheriff from catch
Nine Girls
1944-02-17
One of the members of a sorority is found murdered. Although the police are called in to investigate
Complicated Women
2003-05-06
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, u
The Art Director
1949-11-12
A film's art director is in charge of the set, from conception to construction to furnishing. This s