1. Dorothy Ann Todd was an English film, television and stage actress who achieved international fame when she starred in The Seventh Veil.
20 Facts About Ann Todd
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Ann Todd was a member of The Old Vic theatre company and in 1957 starred in a Broadway play.
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Ann Todd's Scottish-born father Thomas was a salesman, and her London-born mother Constance a housewife.
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Ann Todd had a younger brother Harold Brooke, who became a screenwriter of light comedies.
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Ann Todd studied speech training and drama under Elsie Fogerty at the Central School of Speech and Drama, then based at the Royal Albert Hall, London, with the intention of becoming a drama teacher.
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Ann Todd had roles in These Charming People, The Ghost Train, The Water Gipsies and The Return of Bulldog Drummond.
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Ann Todd returned to film post-WWII with a good support role in a big hit, Perfect Strangers, then had a huge success when she played a suicidal concert pianist in The Seventh Veil, opposite James Mason.
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Ann Todd followed this with a musical, Gaiety George and a noir, Daybreak.
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Ann Todd received a Hollywood offer from Alfred Hitchcock to play Gregory Peck's wife in The Paradine Case, which was a flop.
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Ann Todd appeared in some thrillers, The Green Scarf and Time Without Pity.
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Ann Todd had a good part in Hammer Films' Taste of Fear.
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Ann Todd starred in two episodes of Playhouse 90: "Not the Glory" and "The Grey Nurse Said Nothing".
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Ann Todd appeared in the title role of "Sylvia" on Alfred Hitchcock Presents in 1958.
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In 1957, post her divorce from David Lean, Ann Todd made her Broadway-debut in the production of Four Winds.
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Ann Todd's autobiography was titled The Eighth Veil, an allusion to the film which made her a star in Britain.
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Ann Todd was known as the "pocket Garbo" for her diminutive, blonde beauty.
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Ann Todd's first husband, Victor N Malcolm, was a grandson of Lillie Langtry; she had a son with him named David Malcolm.
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Ann Todd had a daughter with Nigel Tangye named Ann Francesca Tangye.
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Ann Todd married film director Lean on 21 May 1949 and starred successively in three of his films: The Passionate Friends, Madeleine and The Sound Barrier.
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Ann Todd died from a stroke at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on 6 May 1993, aged 86.