Ann Blyth Net Worth

Ann Blyth's Quotes

• As an actress, I have always believed that the truer challenge, the deeper obligation, begins after the the camera stops. My role as a woman in my community and in my home has always overshadowed the excitement of any part I have ever played on stage or screen.

Interesting Facts about Ann Blyth

1. Was under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer until 1956.
2. Son Timothy Patrick was born June 10, 1954. Daughter Maureen Ann was born December 14, 1955. Daughter Kathleen Mary was born December 23, 1957. Son Terence Grady was born December 9, 1960. Daughter Eileen Alana was born April 10, 1963. (All were born in Los Angeles County.).
3. She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6733 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
4. In Italy, she was often dubbed by Fiorella Betti and Rosetta Calavetta. Occasionally, she was also dubbed by Lydia Simoneschi, Renata Marini, Micaela Giustiniani and Rina Morelli, most notably in the role of Veda Pierce in Mildred Pierce (1945).
5. She and her husband were awarded the rank of Lady and Knight of the Holy Sepulchre by Cardinal Cooke in 1971.
6. Supposedly her own beautiful voice was dubbed in The Helen Morgan Story (1957) by singer Gogi Grant because it was too classically-trained and high-pitched.
7. Was the recipient of the Living Legacy Award by the Women's International Center in 2003.
8. Once geared towards an operatic career studying with the San Carlo Opera Company.
9. Blyth caused jaws to drop and eyebrows to raise at the 1954 Oscar broadcast when she sang Doris Day's nominated (and eventual winning) song "Secret Love" from the movie Calamity Jane (1953) while seven months pregnant.
10. For decades, she maintained her primary residence in the upscale San Fernando Valley community of Toluca Lake.
11. In the 1950s, she was a member of the inspirational group The Christophers in which its mission was to use positive action to create a better world in such areas as political fairness, aiding the poor and sick, and helping those with addictions to alcohol and drugs. Other members included Loretta Young, Irene Dunne, Ricardo Montalban, Don Ameche, James Cagney and Bob Hope.
12. She is a staunch conservative Republican and throughout the years had supported Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George Bush and George W. Bush.
13. She is a donor to such groups and charities as the Republican National Committee, the March of Dimes, the American Bible Society, the American Red Cross, Catholic Charities, and Salesian Missions.
14. Appeared with Donald O'Connor in four films: Bowery to Broadway (1944), Chip Off the Old Block (1944), The Merry Monahans (1944) and The Buster Keaton Story (1957).
15. In the 1970s, she was the commercial spokesperson for Hostess Cupcakes.
16. As of 2021 she is the second earliest surviving recipient of a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination, behind only Angela Lansbury. She was nominated in 1945 for Mildred Pierce (1945).
17. Blyth broke her back while tobogganing in Snow Valley not long after Mildred Pierce (1945) was released nationwide. She endured a six-month convalescence.
18. Blyth's mother was the Irish-born and bred Annie ("Nan") Lynch (June 30, 1896 - July 22, 1946), who died at age 50 in Los Angeles, California. Blyth's father, Harry Blythe (Ann later amended the surname by dropping the "e"), was reportedly of Irish stock as well. Blyth had an elder sister, Dorothy.
19. Blyth's character, "Veda", in Mildred Pierce (1945), was portrayed by Sarah Molasky in the FX series, Feud: Bette and Joan (2017) (episode: "The Other Woman"). The character of Veda in HBO's Mildred Pierce (2011), however, was not a killer as the series was faithful to the original novel, in which no murder took place. The murder was added to spice up the film version (Mildred Pierce (1945)) and make it more compelling for film-goers of the time.
20. Blyth was reportedly gifted a Cadillac and a swimming pool by eccentric mogul and producer Howard Hughes in 1951, several years before her engagement and marriage to Dr. James McNulty, with whom she would have five children.