Birthday
1917/11/02
Day of death
2012/06/11 (94 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Also know as
Therese Ann Rutherford
Ann Rutherford was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The daughter of a former Metropolitan Opera singer, John Rutherford, and her actress mother, Lillian Mansfield, Ann was destined for show business. Not long after her birth, her family moved to California, where she made her stage debut in 1925. Ann appeared in many plays and on radio for the next nine years before making her first screen appearance in Waterfront Lady (1935). Ann's talent was readily apparent, and she was signed to...Read more
(1939) Gone with the Wind
as Carreen O'Hara
(1946) Inside Job
as Claire Norton
(1938) A Christmas Carol
as Spirit of Christmas Past
(1948) Adventures of Don Juan
as Donna Elena
(1947) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Gertrude Griswold
(1946) The Madonna's Secret
as Linda 'Morgan' North
(1945) Her Favorite Patient
as Lola Cross
(1942) Andy Hardy's Double Life
as Polly Benedict
(1942) Orchestra Wives
as Connie Ward Abbot
(1941) Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
as Polly Benedict
(1945) Two O'Clock Courage
as Patty Mitchell
(1941) Life Begins for Andy Hardy
as Polly Benedict
(1940) Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
as Polly Benedict
(1940) Pride and Prejudice
as Lydia Bennet
(1939) Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
as Polly Benedict
(1938) Love Finds Andy Hardy
as Polly Benedict
(1972) They Only Kill Their Masters
as Gloria
(1942) Flag of Mercy
as Clara's Student
(1942) The Courtship of Andy Hardy
as Polly Benedict
(1941) Whistling in the Dark
as Carol Lambert
(1942) Whistling in Dixie
as Carol Lambert
(1943) Whistling in Brooklyn
as Carol Lambert
(1941) Badlands of Dakota
as Anne Grayson
(1942) This Time for Keeps
as Katherine 'Kit' White
(1938) Out West with the Hardys
as Polly Benedict
(1939) Judge Hardy and Son
as Polly Benedict
(1936) The Lawless Nineties
as Janet Carter
(1946) Murder in the Music Hall
as Gracie
(1939) Four Girls in White
as Patricia 'Pat' Page
(1938) Of Human Hearts
as Annie Hawks
(1940) The Ghost Comes Home
as Billie Adams
(1937) You're Only Young Once
as Polly Benedict
(1936) The Lonely Trail
as Virginia Terry
(1935) The Singing Vagabond
as Lettie Morgan
(1935) Waterfront Lady
as Joan O'Brien
(1937) Public Cowboy No. 1
as Helen Morgan
(1935) The Fighting Marines
as Frances Schiller
(1950) Operation Haylift
as Clara Masters
(1983) Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1938) Dramatic School
as Yvonne
(1939) These Glamour Girls
as Mary Rose Wilston
(1936) Down to the Sea
as Helen Pappas
(1936) Comin' 'Round the Mountain
as Dolores Moreno
(1935) Melody Trail
as Millicent Thomas
(1936) The Harvester
as Ruth Jameson
(1938) Judge Hardy's Children
as Polly Benedict
(1943) Happy Land
as Lenore Prentiss
(1941) Washington Melodrama
as Laurie Claymore
(1937) The Devil Is Driving
as Kitty Wooster
(1936) Doughnuts and Society
as Joan Dugan
(1940) Keeping Company
as Mary Thomas
(1940) Wyoming
as Lucy Kincaid
(1939) The Hardys Ride High
as Polly Benedict
(1939) Dancing Co-Ed
as Eve Greeley
(1936) The Oregon Trail
as Anne Ridgeley
(1937) Espionage
as Train Passenger
(1940) Andy Hardy's Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics... and Other Things
as Polly Benedict (uncredited)
(1944) Bermuda Mystery
as Constance Martin
(1939) Angel of Mercy
as Sister of Dead Soldier (uncredited)
(1936) Annie Laurie
as Annie Laurie
(1937) Carnival in Paris
as Lisette
(1934) Student Tour
as Student
(1943) Show-Business at War
as Self
(1940) Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Self
(1940) Hollywood: Style Center of the World
as Self
(1976) Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
as Grayson's Studio Secretary
(1988) The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self
(1944) Take It or Leave It
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2009) 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
as Self (archive footage)
(1937) The Bride Wore Red
as Third Peasant Girl (uncredited)
(1972) The Bob Newhart Show
as ---
(1957) Perry Mason
as Evelyn Cartright Forbes
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Joan
(1954) Climax!
as Edith Enders
(1958) The Donna Reed Show
as ---
(1949) Suspense
as Sally Hastings
(1950) Robert Montgomery Presents
as Lacy Holden
(1957) Panic!
as ---
(1957) Perry Mason
as Judith Thurston
(1957) Perry Mason
as Ellen Chase
(1957) Perry Mason
as Mona Hodge
(1969) Love, American Style
as Mrs. Glassmire
(1954) Climax!
as Mary Townsend
(1954) Climax!
as Bette Sullivan