Ann Blyth Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a 3rd place Laurel Award for Top Female Musical Performance for "The Helen Morgan Story" in 1958
• Started out as a radio actor who worked on children's shows in New York for six years
• Appeared on Broadway in a 1941 production of "Watch on the Rhine," which allowed her to be signed to Universal after the show's tour stopped in Los Angeles and she was offered a screen test
• Made her screen acting debut in the film "Chip Off the Old Block" in 1944
• After retiring from films, she appeared in musical theater and television, including the 1960 adaptation of "The Citadel․"
• Best known for her role as Veda Pierce in "Mildred Pierce" and as Dorothy Benjamin in "The Great Caruso․"
• Became a spokesperson for Hostess Cupcakes in the 1960s