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Posted on 06/26/2026 6:46:22 AM PDT by lowbridge
Ann Blyth, the actress of Hollywood’s Golden Age whose breakout came in 1945’s Mildred Pierce, has died. She was 98.
The Academy Award nominee “died peacefully of natural causes” on Wednesday, according to KABC’s George Pennacchio, who noted her passing comes two months before her 99th birthday.
Born Aug. 16, 1927 in Mount Kisko, New York, Blyth began performing on children’s radio shows at age 6, before landing her first Broadway role in Lillian Hellman’s Watch on the Rhine in 1941. While touring with the show in Los Angeles, she landed a contract with Universal Studios.
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Blyth is survived by her five children, whom she shared with late husband Dr. James McNulty, as well as 10 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
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Mildred Pierce, the 13th and 14th presidents.
Rest In Peace, Ann Blyth.
Clever!
9+38:
You get Harrison Ford.
One of my favorite movies.
Back when they made good movies.
Some women sure live long lives.
When I taught U.S. History, I had an essay question on a test:
“Discuss the accomplishments and failures of the Mildred Pierce administration.”
Lots of puzzled looks across the classroom.
The art school girls and gay kids always got it.
MASH dialogue:
BJ: (To Colonel Potter, on how great his wife Mildred is): “You oughta marry that girl!”
Hawkeye: “If you don’t, I will.”
BJ: Nahh... then she’d be Mildred Pierce.”
🤣🤣🤣
It was a great time to be living during the Pierce Administration. Jefferson Davis was the SecWar, bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Sumner in the House with his cane (where have we seen that?), John Brown getting started--and Pierce was the other President who ended up not being nominated for re-election when he wanted to run. OTOH he did open up Japan; otherwise I would never have been able to live there as a teenager.
Mildred would be proud.
On an FR thread two weeks ago, post #9:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4383228/posts?page=9#9
I was thinking of Al Green, but you’re right
“Do you know who I am? I’m AL GREEN! I swung my cane while you were going out with cheerleaders!”
She was in a William Powell film in the late 1940’s, Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid”
Loved her as the mermaid in Mr Peabody’s Mermaid
Love that movie.
Wiki ➡ Mildred Pierce is a 1945 American melodrama film noir directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, and Zachary Scott, and featuring Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, and Bruce Bennett. Based on the 1941 novel by James M. Cain, this was Crawford's first starring role for Warner Bros. Pictures after leaving Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. In 1996, Mildred Pierce was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected for preservation in the United States Library of Congress National Film Registry.
How about some Benjamins??
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