Biography: Ann Sothern |
Born Harriet Lake, the name under which she was billed until 1933, Sothern debuted onscreen in 1929 in a bit part, and went on to play small roles in several other films before leaving Hollywood for Broadway. She soon began landing leads, bringing... more
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Cast: Lillian Gish Vincent Price Bette Davis
Tags: Family Drama Drama
Length: 91min
A once-in-a-lifetime cast of veterans performs David Berry's play about Libby Strong (Bette Davis) and Sarah Webber (Lillian Gish), widowed sisters vacationing on a Philadelphia island for their 60th consecutive summer. Libby is blind and embittered,...
Cast: Jonathan Demme
Tags: Period Film Gangster Film Comedy Crime
Length: 82min
Cloris Leachman stars as Melba, a woman with whom violence is a way of life, in Jonathan Demme's high-pitched "B"-movie Crazy Mama. The film spans three decades in the violent life of Melba, beginning in Jerusalem, Arkansas in 1932, when law enforcers...
Tags: Courtroom Drama Crime Drama Family Drama Drama
Length: 73min
Shelly Winters and John Randolph star in Death of Innocence as distraught small-town parents who learn that their estranged daughter is on trial for murder. They journey to New York City and attend the girl's trial, where the mother learns several...
Cast: Ann Sothern Curtis Hanson
Tags: Crime Drama Action Martial Arts
Length: 90min
Preteen kung-fu masters are on the case when a young girl is kidnapped by hillbillies in this adventure for kids. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
Cast: Olivia de Havilland James Caan
Tags: Thriller Psychological Thriller Crime Thriller
Length: 95min
Olivia de Havilland stars in this sensationalistic shocker as Mrs. Halyard, a wealthy widow recuperating from a broken hip. Inside her mansion, she becomes trapped between floors in her elevator. She activates an emergency alarm but succeeds only in...
Tags: Thriller Psychological Thriller
Length: 84min
A murder is witnessed by the victim's little daughter (Gigi Perreau), who immediately goes into a state of shock. All the girl has seen is the shadow of her mother's killer, but the audience knows that the murderer is Ann Sothern. At first Sothern is...
Tags: Drama Horror Psychological Thriller
Length: 95min
This genuinely perverse horror film stars John Savage as a young man forced to participate in the beachfront gang rape of Sue Bernard by his nasty friends. After two years in jail, he returns to the boardinghouse run by his mother (Ann Sothern), who...
Cast: Robert Z. Leonard Carmen Miranda
Tags: Musical Comedy Comedy Musical
Length: 99min
Ann Sothern closed out her MGM contract with the Technicolor musical Nancy Goes to Rio. As Frances Elliot, Sothern is billed second to Jane Powell, who plays Nancy Barklay. A popular Broadway star, Frances heads to Rio for R&R before starting her next...
Cast: Fritz Lang Anne Baxter Raymond Burr
Tags: Psychological Drama Crime Drama Drama Film Noir
Length: 90min
After learning that her boyfriend, a GI in Korea, has found someone else, Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter) impulsively agrees to meet womanizer Harry Prebble (Raymond Burr) for dinner. Norah allows herself to get drunk and accept Prebble's invitation to his...
A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
Cast: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Kirk Douglas Paul Douglas
Tags: Marriage Drama Comedy of Manners Comedy Drama
Length: 103min
Three wives, played by Jeanne Crain, Ann Sothern and Linda Darnell, are about to embark on a boat trip when each receives a letter, written by a mutual friend named Addie, informing her that Addie is about to run off with one of their husbands. In...
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