Ann Rutherford (1917 - )

• actress
• born November 2, 1917, in Toronto, Ontario
• daughter of former Metropolitan Opera tenor John Guilberty, and an actress mother
• raised in California, where she made her stage debut at the age of five
• appeared in many plays and on radio before being signed by Mascot/Republic in 1934 as a leading lady of low-budget Westerns, opposite Gene Autry and John Wayne
• in 1937 she moved to MGM, where she soon gained popularity in the role of Polly Benedict, Mickey Rooney's ever-faithful girl friend in the Andy Hardy series
• appeared in12 Hardy films, she played leads and supporting roles in many other MGM pictures through the early 40s, when she began free-lancing
• appeared in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
• her second husband was producer William Dozier
• filmography

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