Ann Harding

Known for Acting

Ann Harding (born Dorothy Walton Gatley; August 7, 1902 – September 1, 1981) was an American actress. A regular performer on Broadway and in regional theater in the 1920s, she gained fame in film with the rise of the new medium of "talking pictures". Harding was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Holiday (1930). She was also prolific in radio and television, and has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for film and television each.

Born

August 7, 1902

Died

September 1, 1981 (age 79)

Birthplace

San Antonio, Texas, USA

Filmography

45 films, 15 shows

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A Compassionate Spy

2022 · 1h 42m

country: United States

Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos with no idea what he'll be working on. When he learns the true nature of the weapon being designed, he fears the post-war risk of a nuclear holocaust and begins to pass significant information to the Soviet Union.

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Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

2007 · 1h 10m

country: United States

Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines the rampant sexuality of early Hollywood through movie clips and reminiscences by stars of the era. Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, Marlene Dietrich and others relate tales of the artistic freedom that led to the draconian Production Code, which governed content from 1934 to 1968. Diane Lane narrates.

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Complicated Women

2003 · 56m

country: United States

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimensions. Good girls had lovers and babies and held down jobs, while the bad girls were cast in a sympathetic light. And they did it all without apology.

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Armored Attack!

1957 · 1h 16m

country: United States

A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Re-edited version of The North Star (1943), to remove positive references to Soviet Union and include narration about the Hungarian Uprising of 1956.

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Strange Intruder

1956 · 1h 22m

country: United States

A Korean War veteran must find his buddy's widow and children to keep a bizarre promise.

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I've Lived Before

1956 · 1h 22m

country: United States

Seeing a certain woman makes an airline pilot think he is a reincarnated World War I pilot.

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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

1956 · 2h 33m

country: United States

Tom Rath is a suburban father and husband haunted by his memories of World War II, including a wartime romance with Italian village girl Maria, which resulted in an illegitimate son he's never seen. Pressed by his unhappy wife to get a higher-paying job, Rath goes to work as a public relations man for television network president Ralph Hopkins. Drawn into poisonous office politics, Tom finds he must choose his career or his family.

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The Unknown Man

1951 · 1h 26m

country: United States

A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.

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The Magnificent Yankee

1950 · 1h 20m

country: United States

Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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Two Weeks with Love

1950 · 1h 32m

country: United States

The Robinson family are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills. Older daughter Patti vies with her friend, Valeria, for the affections of Demi Armendez but Patti is at a disadvantage because her parents think she is too young for boys. But with Patti singing at an amateur show and a dance, her adventures in quest of Armendez ends happily.

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The Art Director

1949 · 7m

country: United States

A film's art director is in charge of the set, from conception to construction to furnishing. This short film walks the viewer through art directors' responsibilities and the demands on their talents. They read a script carefully and design a set to capture the time and place, the social strata, and the mood. They must be scholars of the history of architecture, furnishings, and fashion. They choose the colors on a set in anticipation of the lighting and the mood. Their work also sets styles, from Art Deco in the 20's to 30s modernism. Then it's on to the next project. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

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Christmas Eve

1947 · 1h 33m

country: United States

The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth, but she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion. Separate stories reveal Michael as a bankrupt playboy loved by loyal Ann; Mario as a seemingly shady character tangling with a Nazi war criminal in South America; Jonathan as a hard-drinking rodeo rider intent on a flirtatious social worker. Is there hope for Matilda?

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It Happened on Fifth Avenue

1947 · 1h 56m

country: United States

A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.

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Janie Gets Married

1946 · 1h 29m

country: United States

Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.

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Those Endearing Young Charms

1945 · 1h 21m

country: United States

A soldier loses his girlfriend to his best buddy.

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Janie

1944 · 1h 42m

country: United States

Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father.

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Nine Girls

1944 · 1h 18m

country: United States

One of the members of a sorority is found murdered. Although the police are called in to investigate, some of the girls decide to do some sleuthing on their own to unmask the killer.

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The North Star

1943 · 1h 48m

country: United States

A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and released as "Armored Attack."

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Mission to Moscow

1943 · 2h 4m

country: United States

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.

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Eyes in the Night

1942 · 1h 20m

country: United States

Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.

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Love from a Stranger

1937 · 1h 26m

country: United Kingdom

Ann Harding plays a lovely but somewhat naive young woman who goes on a European vacation after winning a lottery. Swept off her feet by charming Basil Rathbone, Harding finds herself married before she is fully able to grasp the situation. Slowly but surely, Rathbone's loving veneer crumbles; when he casually asks Harding to sign a document turning her entire fortune over to him, she deduces that her days are numbered.

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The Witness Chair

1936 · 1h 4m

country: United States

Late one night, secretary Paula Young (Ann Harding) leaves the office of her boss, Stanley Whittaker (Douglas Dumbrille, locking the door and taking the stairs to avoid being seen by the elevator operator (Frank Jenks). The next morning, the cleaning lady finds Whittaker's dead body, an apparent suicide. Police Lieutenant Poole (Moroni Olsen) finds a letter signed by Whittaker in which the deceased states he embezzled $75,000. Soon, however, he suspects otherwise and, after investigating, arrests widower James "Jim" Trent (Walter Abel), the vice president of Whittaker.

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The Lady Consents

1936 · 1h 16m

country: United States

Civilized wife doesn't protest when husband runs off with uncivilized professional golfer pretending to be civilized.

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Peter Ibbetson

1935 · 1h 28m

country: United States

When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project with the Duke and Duchess of Towers. When Peter and the duchess become great friends, she reveals that she is Mary — but the duke soon suspects his wife of infidelity and challenges Peter to a duel, threatening the pair's second chance.

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The Flame Within

1935 · 1h 12m

country: United States

Psychiatrist finds herself falling for her patient.

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Enchanted April

1935 · 1h 6m

country: United States

Mrs. Lotty Wilkins is an unhappily wife whom's life husband and romance have departed. In order to possibly salvage some of the missing elements in her life she rents an old Italian mansion and sharing it with three women. Here the four women plan to spend the month of April away from the cares of home, husbands and the everyday monotony.

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Biography of a Bachelor Girl

1935 · 1h 22m

country: United States

Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsythe on her return to the states from Europe, seeking to convince her to write her biography as a feature for his magazine. One of Marion's old beaus, now running for U.S. Senator from their home state, also comes calling.

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The Hollywood Gad-About

1934 · 11m

country: United States

A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies.

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The Fountain

1934 · 1h 23m

country: United States

Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned British officer, is paroled to the castle of Baron Von Leyden and finds living there, but now married to German officer Rupert Von Narwitz, his childhood sweetheart Julie. Long discussions between Julie and Allison, centering on family conflicts that kept them apart, take place before the severely wounded Von Narwitz returns to the castle and more long discussions ensue.

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The Life of Vergie Winters

1934 · 1h 22m

country: United States

A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman and his career ascends, but he secretly continues the relationship with his true love.

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Gallant Lady

1933 · 1h 22m

country: United States

Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies.

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The Right To Romance

1933 · 1h 7m

country: United States

Against her better judgment, a dedicated and hard-working plastic surgeon (Ann Harding) finds herself falling in love with a playboy (Robert Young). Drama.

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Double Harness

1933 · 1h 9m

country: United States

After tricking him into marriage, a woman tries to win the love of her philandering husband.

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When Ladies Meet

1933 · 1h 25m

country: United States

Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is.

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The Animal Kingdom

1932 · 1h 25m

country: United States

Tom Collier has had a great relationship with Daisy, but when he decides to marry, it is not Daisy whom he asks, it is Cecelia. After the marriage, Tom is bored with the social scene and the obligations of his life. He publishes books that will sell, not books that he wants to write. Even worse, he has his old friend working as a butler and Cecelia wants him fired. When Tom tries to get back together with Daisy to renew the feelings that he once felt, Daisy turns the tables on him and leaves to protect both of them.

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The Conquerors

1932 · 1h 26m

country: United States

A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.

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Westward Passage

1932 · 1h 13m

country: United States

A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.

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Prestige

1932 · 1h 11m

country: United States

A woman joins her fiance at a Malaysian prison camp only to discover he's become an alcoholic.

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Devotion

1931 · 1h 21m

country: United States

A young Londoner disguises herself to become governess of the son of the barrister she loves.

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East Lynne

1931 · 1h 42m

country: United States

The refined Lady Isabel Carlisle, after leaving her family and enduring nearly a decade of hardships, learns that her son has fallen ill. Despite being nearly blinded as the result of an explosion, she returns home to see her son again.

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The Girl of the Golden West

1930 · 1h 21m

country: United States

A hard-bitten saloon girl falls for a dashing outlaw, and tries to keep the local sheriff from catching him and sending him to prison.

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Holiday

1930 · 1h 31m

country: United States

A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.

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Condemned!

1929 · 1h 26m

country: United States

Suave thief Colman is sent to Devil's Island, where he becomes romantically involved with the wife of sadistic warden Digges.

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Her Private Affair

1929 · 1h 11m

country: United States

A married society woman accidentally kills her would-be lover and blackmailer and then suffers a crisis of conscience when his disgruntled butler is charged with the crime.

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Paris Bound

1929 · 1h 13m

country: United States

Jim Hutton and Mary Archer are two liberals who are content to remain faithful to each other in spirit only. They are married with all the ritual of a church wedding, the bride believing that each should be allowed perfect freedom in personal contacts. Complications arise when these ideals are put into practice.